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Minor earthquake, 3.37 mag was detected near Running Springs in CA


Earthquake location 34.2871667S, -117.0581667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Running Springs in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37734479. Id of event: ci37734479. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/17 / 2017-08-14 11:11:02 / August 14, 2017 @ 11:11 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.88 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.37-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:11:02 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.0581667 West, latitude 34.2871667 North, depth = 6.88 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Thousand Palms, Walnut, Azusa.

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNE of Running Springs, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.0581667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2871667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Running Springs, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-14 11:11:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-14 11:24:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.72 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 180 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 110 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1165 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 21 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 ci37734479 Id of event.
Event Code 37734479 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37734479, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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