Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Carpinteria in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Carpinteria in CA on Friday. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:39:30 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci41147327. Unique identifier: ci41147327. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/25 / 2025-12-26 12:39:30 / December 26, 2025 @ 12:39 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.67 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.5225° West, latitude 34.352666666667° North, depth = 2.67 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Thousand Oaks (c. 126 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Simi Valley (c. 124 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malibu, Agoura, Agoura Hills (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.5225° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.352666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km S of Carpinteria, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-26 12:39:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-26 12:43:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		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	automatic	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	133	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04682	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	ci41147327	Id of event.
Event Code	41147327	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41147327,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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