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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near Big Bear Lake in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Bear Lake in California on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -116.9226685 West, latitude 34.1171684 North, depth = 6.38 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.38 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 15:56:35 / July 1, 2016 @ 3:56 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:56:35 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37618152. Unique identifier: ci37618152.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Twentynine Palms, Indio, Chino Hills. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga (c. 165 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 14 km S of Big Bear Lake, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.09 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.9226685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.1171684° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km S of Big Bear Lake, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-01 15:56:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-01 15:59:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.65	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	147	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	115	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02598	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	ci37618152	Id of event.
Event Code	37618152	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37618152,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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