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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Loma Linda in CA

Posted by admin on October 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.0078333S, -117.2506667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Loma Linda in CA on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 15:43:49 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 22:43:49 / October 8, 2016 @ 10:43 pm. Event id: ci37713424. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37713424, nc72709436. Exact location of event, longitude -117.2506667 West, latitude 34.0078333 North, depth = 13.83 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.83 km (9 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cerritos, Cathedral City, Yucca Valley (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SSE of Loma Linda, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2506667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0078333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Loma 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 2016-10-08 22:43:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 23:00:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 802 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 449 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,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 125 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08846 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 14 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 ci37713424 Id of event.
Event Code 37713424 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37713424,nc72709436, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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