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Minor earthquake, 3.61 mag was detected near Calimesa in CA


Earthquake location 34.001667S, -117.0195007WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Calimesa in CA. Global time and date of event 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 14:41:29 / September 30, 2018 @ 2:41 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37374890. Id of event: ci37374890. Exact location, longitude -117.0195007° West, latitude 34.001667° North, depth = 16.81 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.81 km (10 miles). The 3.61-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:41:29 / 6:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Covina, Fullerton, Anaheim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ENE of Calimesa, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.0195007° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.001667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ENE of Calimesa, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-30 14:41:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-30 14:52:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 71 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.28 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 226 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37374890 Id of event.
Event Code 37374890 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37374890, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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