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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near San Clemente Is. (SE tip) in CA


Earthquake location 33.0336685S, -117.9840012WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from San Clemente Is. (SE tip) in CA on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40958104. Id of event: ci40958104. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.54 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:11:58 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/10/24 / 2024-10-20 23:11:58 / October 20, 2024 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -117.9840012° West, latitude 33.0336685° North, depth = 5.54 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Huntington Beach (c. 190 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Costa Mesa (c. 110 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Foothill Ranch, Fallbrook, San Marcos. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 41 km NE of San Clemente Is. (SE tip), CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9840012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.0336685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km NE of San Clemente Is. (SE tip), CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-20 23:11:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-20 23:14:13 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 145 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 ci40958104 Id of event.
Event Code 40958104 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40958104, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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