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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 7 km ENE of Aguanga, CA


Earthquake location 33.4760017S, -116.7971649WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Aguanga in CA. Global time and date of event 21/07/18 / 2018-07-21 12:07:56 / July 21, 2018 @ 12:07 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38226712. Id of event: ci38226712. Exact location of event, longitude -116.7971649 West, latitude 33.4760017 North, depth = 2.38 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:07:56 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.38 km (1 miles).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yucca Valley, Ladera Ranch, El Cerrito.

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 7 km ENE of Aguanga, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7971649° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4760017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE 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 2018-07-21 12:07:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-21 12:18:59 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 1 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 139 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03637 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 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 ci38226712 Id of event.
Event Code 38226712 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38226712, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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