Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Aguanga in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aguanga in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/18 / 2018-08-20 15:44:54 / August 20, 2018 @ 3:44 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38253816. Unique identifier: ci38253816. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.14 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -116.8056641 West, latitude 33.4889984 North, depth = 2.14 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:54 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, San Bernardino, Sunnyslope.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-five 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. 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: 8 km NE of Aguanga, CA.

Aguanga CA Casa de Oro-Mount Helix Escondido Moreno Valley Oceanside Riverside San Bernardino Sunnyslope United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.8056641° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4889984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NE of Aguanga, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-20 15:44:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-20 15:56:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	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	reviewed	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	171	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	0.02373	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	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	ci38253816	Id of event.
Event Code	38253816	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38253816,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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