Minor earthquake: M3.23 quake has struck near Sky Valley in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sky Valley in California. Exact location, longitude -116.3178329° West, latitude 33.954834° North, depth = 7.09 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/18 / 2018-03-16 04:08:01 / March 16, 2018 @ 4:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.09 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:08:01 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci37894911. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37894911.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Redlands (c. 68 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yucaipa (c. 51 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Redlands, Nuevo, Homeland (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 7 km NNE of Sky Valley, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.3178329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.954834° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNE of Sky Valley, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-16 04:08:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-16 04:11:05	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	2.7	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	161	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	113	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07689	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	25	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	ci37894911	Id of event.
Event Code	37894911	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37894911,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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