Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Anza in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Anza in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -116.7030029° West, 33.5788345° North, depth 13.83 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.83 km (9 miles). Global time and date of event 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 01:57:52 / September 2, 2016 @ 1:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:57:52 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37466951. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37466951.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colton, Big Bear City, Highland. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km NW of Anza, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7030029° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.5788345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NW 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	2016-09-02 01:57:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-02 02:00:00	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	137	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	16	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	ci37466951	Id of event.
Event Code	37466951	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37466951,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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