A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Pine Valley in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.86 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 8.86 km, -116.2754974° West, 32.8408318° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:29:20 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/15 / 2015-12-14 21:29:20 / December 14, 2015 @ 9:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37501768. Id of event: ci37501768.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calexico, Bonita, Poway. Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from La Mesa (c. 57 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santee (c. 53 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Poway (c. 47 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 24 km E of Pine Valley, California.
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