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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag strikes near San Bernardino in CA


Earthquake location 34.1031685S, -117.3071671WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Bernardino in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.13 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37361730. Unique identifier: ci37361730. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/18 / 2018-09-20 12:44:34 / September 20, 2018 @ 12:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -117.3071671° West, 34.1031685° North, depth 15.13 km. The temblor was detected at 04:44:34 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boyle Heights, Cudahy, Bell (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km SSW of San Bernardino, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.3071671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1031685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSW of San Bernardino, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-20 12:44:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-20 12:46:44 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 182 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01308 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 ci37361730 Id of event.
Event Code 37361730 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37361730, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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