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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag was detected near Pinon Hills in California


Earthquake location 34.4143333S, -117.677002WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pinon Hills in California on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/07/17 / 2017-07-10 17:43:03 / July 10, 2017 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 09:43:03 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.73 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: ci37698831. Event ids that are associated: ci37698831. Exact location of event, depth 3.73 km, -117.677002° West, 34.4143333° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow, Inglewood, Midway City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km SW of Pinon Hills, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.677002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4143333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW of Pinon Hills, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-10 17:43:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-10 17:47:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.09 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 150 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 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 ci37698831 Id of event.
Event Code 37698831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37698831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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