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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Aguanga in CA


Earthquake location 33.493S, -116.7976667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aguanga in CA. Global time and date of event 23/11/17 / 2017-11-23 02:15:26 / November 23, 2017 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci37817047. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37817047. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:15:26 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.38 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -116.7976667° West, 33.493° North, depth 5.38 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yucca Valley, Grand Terrace, Rancho Santa Margarita (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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 (31 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NE of Aguanga, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7976667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NE of Aguanga, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-23 02:15:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-23 02:19:22 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 122 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 0.01945 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 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 ci37817047 Id of event.
Event Code 37817047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37817047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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