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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Aguanga in California


Earthquake location 33.5014992S, -116.7973328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Aguanga in California. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.7973328 West, latitude 33.5014992 North, depth = 5.18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.18 km (3 miles). Event id: ci37826343. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37826343. Global time and date of event 09/12/17 / 2017-12-09 20:45:24 / December 9, 2017 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:45:24 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dana Point, Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, Joshua Tree. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Corona (c. 152 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NE of Aguanga, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7973328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5014992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2017-12-09 20:45:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-09 20:49:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.77 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 189 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 114 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01113 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 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37826343 Id of event.
Event Code 37826343 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37826343, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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