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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Channel Islands Beach in California

Posted by admin on December 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9103S, -119.931WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 153 km SSW of Channel Islands Beach, California (95 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:38:30 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rvch. Ids that are associated to the event: ci41353096, us6000rvch. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 21:38:30 / December 16, 2025 @ 9:38 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -119.931° West, 32.9103° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 153 km SSW of Channel Islands Beach, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153 km SSW of Channel Islands Beach, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-16 21:38:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-16 21:57:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.538 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rvch Id of event.
Event Code 6000rvch An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci41353096,us6000rvch, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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