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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Loma Linda in CA


Earthquake location 34.0236664S, -117.2238312WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Loma Linda in CA on Friday. Exact location, longitude -117.2238312° West, latitude 34.0236664° North, depth = 15.36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.36 km (10 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:14:14 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38171392. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38171392. Global time and date of event 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 07:14:14 / May 12, 2018 @ 7:14 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Norwalk, Thousand Palms, East San Gabriel (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SE of Loma Linda, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2238312° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0236664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-12 07:14:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 07:27:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 118 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.68 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 184 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08712 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 44 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 ci38171392 Id of event.
Event Code 38171392 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38171392, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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