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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Moreno Valley in CA


Earthquake location 33.9818333S, -117.244WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Moreno Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 23:28:27 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.6 km (8 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38266847. Unique identifier: ci38266847. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 07:28:27 / March 13, 2019 @ 7:28 am. Exact location of earthquake, -117.244° West, 33.9818333° North, depth 13.6 km.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rosemead, Sierra Madre, Cerritos. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy 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. 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: 6 km NNW of Moreno Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.244° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9818333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Moreno Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-13 07:28:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 07:39:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 129 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 101 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06844 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 18 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 ci38266847 Id of event.
Event Code 38266847 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38266847, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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