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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag has occurred near Aguanga in CA


Earthquake location 33.4968338S, -116.805336WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aguanga in CA. Exact location of event, depth 2.71 km, -116.805336° West, 33.4968338° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 19:26:51 / May 19, 2018 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:26:51 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37944431. Unique identifier: ci37944431. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.71 km (2 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Big Bear Lake, La Mesa, Lake Forest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Corona (c. 152 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km NE of Aguanga, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.805336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4968338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NE of Aguanga, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-19 19:26:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 19:38:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 53 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.59 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 reviewed 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 202 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 110 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37944431 Id of event.
Event Code 37944431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37944431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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