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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag strikes near Big Bear Lake in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Bear Lake in California. Exact location, longitude -116.9113312° West, latitude 34.1181679° North, depth = 7.42 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37476904. Id of event: ci37476904. The 3.46-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:31:59 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.42 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 02:31:59 / October 17, 2015 @ 2:31 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diamond Bar, Rancho Santa Margarita, Portola Hills (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km S of Big Bear Lake, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.9113312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1181679° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km S of Big Bear Lake, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-17 02:31:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-17 02:36:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	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	187	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0319	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	ci37476904	Id of event.
Event Code	37476904	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37476904,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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