Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Glen Avon in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Glen Avon in CA. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:12:01 / 4:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.63 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38646288. Id of event: ci38646288. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/06/19 / 2019-06-17 00:12:01 / June 17, 2019 @ 12:12 am. Exact location, longitude -117.5016632° West, latitude 34.0519981° North, depth = 3.63 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alondra Park, Fallbrook, View Park-Windsor Hills.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km NNW of Glen Avon, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5016632° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0519981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NNW of Glen Avon, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-17 00:12:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-17 00:15:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.59	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	137	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	140	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	13	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	ci38646288	Id of event.
Event Code	38646288	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38646288,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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