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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag was detected near Lucerne Valley in CA


Earthquake location 34.4336662S, -116.8560028WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Lucerne Valley in CA on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.47 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39406888. Id of event: ci39406888. The temblor was picked up at 19:46:25 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 03:46:25 / April 27, 2020 @ 3:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.8560028 West, latitude 34.4336662 North, depth = 4.47 km.

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 Mira Loma, Mead Valley, East Hemet. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop).

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

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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: 10 km E of Lucerne Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8560028° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4336662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Lucerne 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 2020-04-27 03:46:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-27 03:48:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 142 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 ci39406888 Id of event.
Event Code 39406888 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39406888, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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