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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Cabazon in CA


Earthquake location 34.0323333S, -116.8071667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cabazon in CA on Sunday. Unique identifier: ci37950727. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37950727. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.85 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/05/18 / 2018-05-27 17:36:26 / May 27, 2018 @ 5:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 12.85 km, -116.8071667° West, 34.0323333° North. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:36:26 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rancho Cucamonga, Corona, Victorville.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km N of Cabazon, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8071667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0323333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2018-05-27 17:36:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-27 17:41:33 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 3.1 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 126 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 98 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002855 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 23 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 ci37950727 Id of event.
Event Code 37950727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37950727, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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