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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Anza in California


Earthquake location 33.4416656S, -116.5866699WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anza in California. Exact location of event, depth 11.21 km, -116.5866699° West, 33.4416656° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.21 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37235727. Unique identifier: ci37235727. The temblor was picked up at 19:59:14 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 02:59:14 / August 30, 2015 @ 2:59 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calimesa, Santee, Yucca Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSE of Anza, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.5866699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4416656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE of Anza, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-30 02:59:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-30 03:02:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 130 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 ci37235727 Id of event.
Event Code 37235727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37235727, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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