Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Anza in CA


Earthquake location 33.4933319S, -116.5148315WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anza in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -116.5148315 West, latitude 33.4933319 North, depth = 9.91 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.91 km (6 miles). Event id: ci39127679. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39127679. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/04/20 / 2020-04-04 04:07:22 / April 4, 2020 @ 4:07 am. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:07:22 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santee, Winter Gardens, Twentynine Palms (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Did you feel the quake?

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. 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: 16 km ESE of Anza, CA.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.5148315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4933319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2020-04-04 04:07:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-04 04:13:04 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 5.09 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 reviewed 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 199 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 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06541 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 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39127679 Id of event.
Event Code 39127679 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39127679, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply