Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Idyllwild in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Idyllwild in CA. Global time and date of event 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 01:24:15 / December 25, 2019 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:24:15 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.7789993 West, latitude 33.7088318 North, depth = 15.5 km. Id of earthquake: ci39012591. Event ids that are associated: ci39012591. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Oceanside (c. 167 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oceanside, Las Flores, Portola Hills (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WSW of Idyllwild, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Fontana Idyllwild Las Flores Moreno Valley Oceanside Portola Hills Riverside San Bernardino United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7789993° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7088318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WSW of Idyllwild, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-25 01:24:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-25 01:30:25	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	3.1	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	158	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05409	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	18	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	ci39012591	Id of event.
Event Code	39012591	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39012591,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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