Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Julian in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Julian in CA. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:41:51 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38470576. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38470576. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.89 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -116.4308319 West, latitude 33.0428352 North, depth = 5.89 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 08:41:51 / February 23, 2019 @ 8:41 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from San Diego (c. 1 307 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Chula Vista (c. 243 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Diego, Chula Vista, Palm Desert (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 16 km ESE of Julian, CA.

CA Chula Vista El Cajon Escondido Julian Palm Desert San Diego San Marcos United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.4308319° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0428352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km ESE of Julian, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-23 08:41:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-23 08:44:01	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	121	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	111	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03492	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 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	ci38470576	Id of event.
Event Code	38470576	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38470576,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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