Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Idyllwild in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Idyllwild in CA. Unique identifier: ci37673904. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37673904. Exact location of event, depth 17.78 km, -116.7206667° West, 33.6983333° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 05:17:44 / August 27, 2016 @ 5:17 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:17:44 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.78 km (11 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Diego Country Estates, Muscoy, Home Gardens (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km S of Idyllwild, CA.

CA Escondido Home Gardens Idyllwild Moreno Valley Murrieta Muscoy Riverside San Bernardino San Diego Country Estates United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7206667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.6983333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km S of Idyllwild, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-27 05:17:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-27 05:28:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	131	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	84	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0139	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	17	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	ci37673904	Id of event.
Event Code	37673904	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37673904,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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