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Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 1 km E of Loma Linda, CA


Earthquake location 34.0493317S, -117.2498322WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Loma Linda in CA on Wednesday. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:04:15 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.48 km (10 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/16 / 2016-12-15 06:04:15 / December 15, 2016 @ 6:04 am. Exact location of event, depth 16.48 km, -117.2498322° West, 34.0493317° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37765344. Id of event: ci37765344.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monterey Park, Hawaiian Gardens, Artesia.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km E of Loma Linda, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2498322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0493317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E 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 2016-12-15 06:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-15 06:18:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.8 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 157 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 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 ci37765344 Id of event.
Event Code 37765344 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37765344, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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