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Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag strikes near Nuevo in California

Posted by admin on December 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.8393326S, -117.0488358WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Nuevo in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.84 km (9 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.0488358° West, latitude 33.8393326° North, depth = 13.84 km. Id of earthquake: ci37286351. Event ids that are associated: ci37286351. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 01:45:47 / December 19, 2015 @ 1:45 am. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:45:47 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rowland Heights, Escondido, Anaheim. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 10 km ENE of Nuevo, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.0488358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.8393326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Nuevo, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-19 01:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-19 02:04:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 172 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.92 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 236 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 ci37286351 Id of event.
Event Code 37286351 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37286351, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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