Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Aguanga in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Aguanga in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.38 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.801 West, latitude 33.4823333 North, depth = 0.38 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:14:33 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 10:14:33 / September 6, 2018 @ 10:14 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38049335. Unique identifier: ci38049335.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rancho Santa Margarita, Bostonia, Loma Linda (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NE of Aguanga, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Aguanga Bostonia CA Carlsbad Escondido Loma Linda Moreno Valley Oceanside Rancho Santa Margarita Riverside United States

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.801° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4823333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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	2018-09-06 10:14:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-06 10:18:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	128	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	90	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02996	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	ci38049335	Id of event.
Event Code	38049335	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38049335,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Aguanga in CA

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information