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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag strikes near Mentone in CA

Posted by admin on August 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.0164986S, -117.1191635WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Mentone in CA on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.87 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 17:17:48 / August 29, 2019 @ 5:17 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:17:48 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.1191635 West, latitude 34.0164986 North, depth = 8.87 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39022568. Id of event: ci39022568.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacienda Heights, West Puente Valley, Baldwin Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SSE of Mentone, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.1191635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0164986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Mentone, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-29 17:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-29 17:25:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.93 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 147 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 136 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 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 ci39022568 Id of event.
Event Code 39022568 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39022568, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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