Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag was detected near Valle Vista in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Valle Vista in CA on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 04:41:02 / April 18, 2020 @ 4:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:41:02 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39394672. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39394672. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.67 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -116.8381653° West, 33.7114983° North, depth 16.67 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laguna Hills, San Juan Capistrano, Lake Forest. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seventy 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.

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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: 6 km SE of Valle Vista, CA.

CA Fontana Laguna Hills Lake Forest Moreno Valley Oceanside Riverside San Bernardino San Juan Capistrano United States Valle Vista

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.8381653° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7114983° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SE of Valle Vista, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-18 04:41:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-18 04:44:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	164	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	0.07545	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	15	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	ci39394672	Id of event.
Event Code	39394672	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39394672,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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