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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 9 km WSW of Anza, CA


Earthquake location 33.5094986S, -116.7558365WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Anza in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -116.7558365 West, latitude 33.5094986 North, depth = 2.94 km. Unique identifier: ci38232760. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38232760. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 18:40:46 / July 29, 2018 @ 6:40 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:40:46 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.94 km (2 miles).

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Grand Terrace, Coto De Caza, Santee (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km WSW of Anza, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7558365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5094986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW of Anza, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 18:40:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 18:42:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 13 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 ci38232760 Id of event.
Event Code 38232760 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38232760, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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