Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near Cabazon in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Cabazon in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 11:51:53 / May 8, 2018 @ 11:51 am. Exact location of event, longitude -116.802002 West, latitude 34.0186653 North, depth = 12.19 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:51:53 / 11:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.19 km (8 miles). Id of earthquake: ci38167864. Event ids that are associated: ci38167864.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Upland, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty 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. 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: 11 km N of Cabazon, CA.

CA Cabazon Fontana Moreno Valley Ontario Rancho Cucamonga Riverside San Bernardino United States Upland

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.802002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0186653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km N of Cabazon, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-08 11:51:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-08 11:54:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	161	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	108	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1057	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	ci38167864	Id of event.
Event Code	38167864	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38167864,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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