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Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 3 km WNW of Yorba Linda, CA

Posted by admin on August 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.8961678S, -117.8446655WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Yorba Linda in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/16 / 2016-08-16 07:17:07 / August 16, 2016 @ 7:17 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:17:07 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.24 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8446655 West, latitude 33.8961678 North, depth = 3.24 km. Id of earthquake: ci37447279. Event ids that are associated: ci37447279.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calabasas, Temecula, Hesperia.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WNW of Yorba Linda, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8446655° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.8961678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Yorba Linda, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-16 07:17:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-16 07:19:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 135 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 118 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0692 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 31 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 ci37447279 Id of event.
Event Code 37447279 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37447279, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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