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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Anza in CA


Earthquake location 33.463S, -116.4835WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Anza in CA on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37390463. Unique identifier: ci37390463. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.54 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:40:54 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 01:40:54 / June 18, 2016 @ 1:40 am. Exact location of event, depth 9.54 km, -116.4835° West, 33.463° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Canyon Lake, Vista, Joshua Tree (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km ESE of Anza, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.463° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE of Anza, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-18 01:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-18 01:44:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 129 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 88 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 ci37390463 Id of event.
Event Code 37390463 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37390463, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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