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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Banning in CA


Earthquake location 33.8873329S, -116.8751678WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Banning in CA. Global time and date of event 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 01:16:02 / January 24, 2017 @ 1:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -116.8751678 West, latitude 33.8873329 North, depth = 12.23 km. The temblor was reported at 17:16:02 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.23 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37572791. Unique identifier: ci37572791.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Flores, Chino, Foothill Ranch. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop).

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 fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 S of Banning, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8751678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.8873329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S of Banning, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-24 01:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-24 01:18:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 121 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 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0802 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 17 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 ci37572791 Id of event.
Event Code 37572791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37572791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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