Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Yucca Valley in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Yucca Valley in CA on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.85 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.4318333 West, latitude 34.2555 North, depth = 0.85 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 09:11:21 / June 21, 2020 @ 9:11 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39488496. Unique identifier: ci39488496. The temblor was detected at 09:11:21 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hemet, Apple Valley, East Hemet (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Redlands (c. 68 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Highland (c. 53 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 16 km N of Yucca Valley, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.4318333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2555° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km N of Yucca 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	2020-06-21 09:11:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-21 09:15:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	128	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	ci39488496	Id of event.
Event Code	39488496	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39488496,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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