Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag was detected near Fontana in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fontana in CA on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 23:11:47 / September 28, 2024 @ 11:11 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.66 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: ci40747903. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40747903. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5134964 West, latitude 34.0755005 North, depth = 14.66 km. The temblor was detected at 23:11:47 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was North Hollywood, Lawndale, Ladera Heights. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km WSW of Fontana, CA.

Anaheim CA Fontana Ladera Heights Lawndale Long Beach Los Angeles North Hollywood Riverside Santa Ana United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5134964° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0755005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km WSW of Fontana, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-28 23:11:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 23:14:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	153	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.369	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	ci40747903	Id of event.
Event Code	40747903	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40747903,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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