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Minor earthquake 3.18 mag, 7 km SE of Valle Vista, California


Earthquake location 33.7058334S, -116.8339996WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Valle Vista in California on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 23:19:33 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -116.8339996° West, latitude 33.7058334° North, depth = 15.55 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/16 / 2016-05-06 06:19:33 / May 6, 2016 @ 6:19 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37560392. Id of event: ci37560392. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.55 km (10 miles).

Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan Capistrano, Lake Forest, San Clemente (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SE of Valle Vista, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8339996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7058334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SE of Valle Vista, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-06 06:19:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-06 06:39:53 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 3.1 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 161 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 91 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 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 ci37560392 Id of event.
Event Code 37560392 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37560392, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

2 Comments

  1. Luciana Tsuda

    it’s getting worrying

  2. Karen Wade

    As a low level consistent rolling, like a river overflowing underground.

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