Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Anza in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Anza in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.34 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38112376. Unique identifier: ci38112376. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/18 / 2018-02-20 07:34:34 / February 20, 2018 @ 7:34 am. The temblor was detected at 23:34:34 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.4670029 West, latitude 33.4761658 North, depth = 4.34 km.

The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vista, Perris, Canyon Lake (min 5000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 21 km ESE of Anza, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.4670029° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.4761658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km ESE of Anza, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-20 07:34:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-20 07:41:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	137	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	120	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0584	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	ci38112376	Id of event.
Event Code	38112376	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38112376,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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