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Minor earthquake 3.61 mag, 27 km ESE of Boron, CA


Earthquake location 34.8758316S, -117.3901672WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Boron in CA on Thursday. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:10:59 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39210040. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39210040. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.3901672 West, latitude 34.8758316 North, depth = 1.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.08 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 23:10:59 / November 28, 2019 @ 11:10 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Highland, Big Bear City, Big Bear Lake. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Palmdale (c. 152 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Hesperia (c. 90 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Highland (c. 53 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days six hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 27 km ESE of Boron, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.3901672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8758316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ESE of Boron, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-28 23:10:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-28 23:14:53 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 5.7 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 200 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 139 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci39210040 Id of event.
Event Code 39210040 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39210040, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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