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Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag strikes near Anza in California


Earthquake location 33.588501S, -116.8218307WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Anza in California. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 15:17:54 / July 23, 2015 @ 3:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -116.8218307° West, 33.588501° North, depth 9.27 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.27 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:17:54 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37211999. Id of event: ci37211999.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eucalyptus Hills, Fontana, Muscoy. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 14 km WNW of Anza, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8218307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.588501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW of Anza, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-23 15:17:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-23 15:31:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 168 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 0.04672 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 24 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 ci37211999 Id of event.
Event Code 37211999 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37211999, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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