Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag strikes near Nuevo in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Nuevo in CA. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -117.1113333° West, 33.8741667° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37698815. Id of event: ci37698815. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/17 / 2017-07-10 17:42:33 / July 10, 2017 @ 5:42 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:42:33 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buena Park, Stanton, Baldwin Park.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km NNE of Nuevo, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1113333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.8741667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNE of Nuevo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-10 17:42:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-10 17:46:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	163	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08913	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	ci37698815	Id of event.
Event Code	37698815	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37698815,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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