Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag was detected near Mentone in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Mentone in CA. Unique identifier: ci40844079. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40844079. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.61 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.61 km, -117.1296692° West, 34.045166° North. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:09:53 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/25 / 2025-01-21 02:09:53 / January 21, 2025 @ 2:09 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duarte, Palm Desert, San Juan Capistrano. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 one and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km S of Mentone, CA.

Anaheim CA Duarte Irvine Mentone Palm Desert Riverside San Bernardino San Juan Capistrano Santa Ana United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1296692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.045166° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km S of Mentone, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-21 02:09:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-21 02:12:21	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	134	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	118	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01729	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	16	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	ci40844079	Id of event.
Event Code	40844079	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40844079,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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