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Minor earthquake 3.05 mag, 10 km S of Idyllwild, CA


Earthquake location 33.6469994S, -116.731163WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Idyllwild in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.79 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: ci37441431. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37441431. The temblor was reported at 15:00:54 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -116.731163 West, latitude 33.6469994 North, depth = 14.79 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 22:00:54 / August 10, 2016 @ 10:00 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oceanside, Rialto, Pedley (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km S of Idyllwild, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.731163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.6469994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Idyllwild, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-10 22:00:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 22:03:31 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 143 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0526 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 18 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 ci37441431 Id of event.
Event Code 37441431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37441431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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