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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Lake Elsinore in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Lake Elsinore in CA on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 16:39:31 / 4:39 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ew1723739970, ci40703159, us7000n76k. Unique identifier: ci40703159. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.84 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 16:39:31 / August 15, 2024 @ 4:39 pm. Exact location of event, depth 8.84 km, -117.3913345° West, 33.6776657° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Athens, Desert Hot Springs, Gardena (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 W of Lake Elsinore, CA.

Anaheim CA Desert Hot Springs Gardena Irvine Lake Elsinore Long Beach Riverside San Bernardino Santa Ana United States West Athens

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.3913345° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.6776657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km W of Lake Elsinore, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-15 16:39:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-15 16:44:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	18	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.277	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	240	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	,ew,ci,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04064	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci40703159	Id of event.
Event Code	40703159	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1723739970,ci40703159,us7000n76k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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