A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lucerne Valley in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38407640. Unique identifier: ci38407640. Exact location of event, depth 1.92 km, -116.8909988° West, 34.4078331° North. The temblor was reported at 17:15:00 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.92 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 01:15:00 / December 27, 2018 @ 1:15 am UTC/GMT.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Home Gardens, Twentynine Palms, Sun City.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 8 km ESE of Lucerne Valley, CA.
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