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Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 2 km N of Lake Henshaw, CA


Earthquake location 33.2581673S, -116.7611694WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Lake Henshaw in CA. The temblor was detected at 03:37:30 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38061959. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38061959. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 11:37:30 / September 16, 2018 @ 11:37 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.38 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.7611694 West, latitude 33.2581673 North, depth = 14.38 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Diego (c. 1 307 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chula Vista (c. 243 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 105 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Imperial Beach, Cherry Valley, Desert Hot Springs (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 seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km N of Lake Henshaw, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7611694° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2581673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N of Lake Henshaw, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-16 11:37:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-16 11:39:49 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 172 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 ci38061959 Id of event.
Event Code 38061959 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38061959, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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