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Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near Yucca Valley in CA


Earthquake location 34.0946655S, -116.4006653WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Yucca Valley in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37851280. Id of event: ci37851280. The temblor was reported at 22:20:47 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.4006653 West, latitude 34.0946655 North, depth = 7.63 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 06:20:47 / April 7, 2017 @ 6:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Menifee, Loma Linda, Moreno Valley (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Menifee (c. 77 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Redlands (c. 68 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km SE of Yucca Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4006653° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0946655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Yucca Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-07 06:20:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-07 06:22:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 154 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 112 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02682 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 22 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 ci37851280 Id of event.
Event Code 37851280 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37851280, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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