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Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag has occurred near Barstow in CA


Earthquake location 34.9481659S, -116.7405014WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Barstow in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38201136. Id of event: ci38201136. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.7405014 West, latitude 34.9481659 North, depth = 2.72 km. The temblor was detected at 17:20:32 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 01:20:32 / June 20, 2018 @ 1:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.72 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Big Bear Lake, Hesperia, Big Bear City. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hesperia (c. 90 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Adelanto (c. 31 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 26 km ENE of Barstow, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7405014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9481659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ENE of Barstow, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-20 01:20:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 01:31:49 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 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 160 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 ci38201136 Id of event.
Event Code 38201136 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38201136, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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