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Minor earthquake 3.04 mag, 10 km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA


Earthquake location 33.7008324S, -117.4339981WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Lake Elsinore in CA on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/19 / 2019-10-31 09:44:53 / October 31, 2019 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:44:53 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.4339981° West, 33.7008324° North, depth 9.09 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38924471. Id of event: ci38924471. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.09 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Walnut Park, East Pasadena, San Marino (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 10 km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4339981° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7008324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-31 09:44:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 09:48:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.53 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 143 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 135 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05205 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 59 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 ci38924471 Id of event.
Event Code 38924471 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38924471, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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