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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Lytle Creek in CA


Earthquake location 34.2453346S, -117.4541702WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Lytle Creek in CA on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/18 / 2018-04-09 07:31:59 / April 9, 2018 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.77 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4541702° West, 34.2453346° North, depth 10.77 km. The temblor was detected at 23:31:59 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci37911423. Event ids that are associated: ci37911423.

Close 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 Universal City, Quartz Hill, Barstow. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km ESE of Lytle Creek, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4541702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2453346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Lytle Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-09 07:31:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-09 07:35:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.6 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 181 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 0.02602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37911423 Id of event.
Event Code 37911423 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37911423, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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