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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Devore in California


Earthquake location 34.1746674S, -117.4401703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Devore in California on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -117.4401703° West, latitude 34.1746674° North, depth = 9.88 km. Event id: ci37274199. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37274199. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 04:41:48 / November 18, 2015 @ 4:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.88 km (6 miles). The 3.43-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:41:48 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Westmont, West Rancho Dominguez, Long Beach (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SW of Devore, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4401703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1746674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Devore, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-18 04:41:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-18 04:47:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.31 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 181 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 99 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05961 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 26 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 ci37274199 Id of event.
Event Code 37274199 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37274199, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Diana

    Yup I felt it in Fontana ca!

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