Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Devore in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Devore in California on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: ci37507608. Event ids that are associated: ci37507608. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4103317° West, 34.1889992° North, depth 5.63 km. The temblor was reported at 17:55:14 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.63 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 01:55:14 / December 30, 2015 @ 1:55 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Huntington Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Beach. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km SSW of Devore, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4103317° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1889992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSW of Devore, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-30 01:55:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-30 02:11:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	3.92	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	156	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	109	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0828	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	ci37507608	Id of event.
Event Code	37507608	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37507608,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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