Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Aguanga in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aguanga in California on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 19:47:33 / October 20, 2017 @ 7:47 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ci38028888. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38028888. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:47:33 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -116.7976685° West, latitude 33.4888344° North, depth = 3.6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.6 km (2 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Grand Terrace, Bostonia, Rancho Santa Margarita.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NE of Aguanga, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7976685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4888344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km 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 19:47:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-20 19:49:43	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	123	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09151	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	ci38028888	Id of event.
Event Code	38028888	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38028888,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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