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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 22 km ESE of Anza, CA


Earthquake location 33.4641667S, -116.4661667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Anza in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38039680. Event ids that are associated: ci38039680. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/17 / 2017-11-09 04:35:59 / November 9, 2017 @ 4:35 am. The temblor was detected at 20:35:59 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -116.4661667° West, 33.4641667° North, depth 6.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.89 km (4 miles).

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poway, Wildomar, Joshua Tree. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 22 km ESE of Anza, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4661667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4641667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ESE of Anza, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-09 04:35:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-09 04:39:36 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 125 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 0.06807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 ci38039680 Id of event.
Event Code 38039680 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38039680, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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