Minor earthquake: M3.18 quake has struck near Muscoy in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Muscoy in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.78 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37367951. Id of event: ci37367951. Exact location of earthquake, -117.2919998° West, 34.1803322° North, depth 7.78 km. The temblor was reported at 16:06:15 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/16 / 2016-06-02 23:06:15 / June 2, 2016 @ 11:06 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cerritos, Cypress, Barstow Heights (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km ENE of Muscoy, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.2919998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1803322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE of Muscoy, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-02 23:06:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-02 23:09:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.13	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	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	121	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01762	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	36	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	ci37367951	Id of event.
Event Code	37367951	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37367951,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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