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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag was detected near Idyllwild in CA


Earthquake location 33.675499S, -116.7225037WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Idyllwild in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -116.7225037 West, latitude 33.675499 North, depth = 15.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:43:01 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 12:43:01 / August 28, 2024 @ 12:43 pm. Id of earthquake: ci40717127. Event ids that are associated: ci40717127. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.96 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Rancho Santa Margarita, Crestline. Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 7 km S of Idyllwild, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7225037° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.675499° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km S of Idyllwild, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-28 12:43:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 12:45:31 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 183 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03625 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 13 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 ci40717127 Id of event.
Event Code 40717127 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40717127, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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