Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Pine Valley in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Pine Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 07:26:06 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/03/21 / 2021-03-12 07:26:06 / March 12, 2021 @ 7:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.2628326 West, latitude 32.9194984 North, depth = 10.28 km. Event id: ci39577879. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39577879. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.28 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bonita, Calexico, Mecca (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from La Mesa (c. 57 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santee (c. 53 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Poway (c. 47 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km ENE of Pine Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bonita CA Calexico El Cajon La Mesa Mecca Mexico Pine Valley Poway Santee Tecate United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.2628326° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9194984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km ENE of Pine 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	2021-03-12 07:26:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-12 07:31:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	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	111	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04887	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	ci39577879	Id of event.
Event Code	39577879	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39577879,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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