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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 7 km NE of Aguanga, California


Earthquake location 33.4906654S, -116.8013306WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Aguanga in California on Friday. Exact location, longitude -116.8013306° West, latitude 33.4906654° North, depth = 2.58 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38028880. Id of event: ci38028880. The temblor was reported at 11:32:07 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.58 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 19:32:07 / October 20, 2017 @ 7:32 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Flores, Yucca Valley, El Cerrito (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 7 km NE of Aguanga, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8013306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4906654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NE of Aguanga, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-20 19:32:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 19:34:17 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 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 ci38028880 Id of event.
Event Code 38028880 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38028880, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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