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Minor earthquake 3.17 mag, 15 km ESE of Anza, CA


Earthquake location 33.5008316S, -116.5231705WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anza in CA on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -116.5231705 West, latitude 33.5008316 North, depth = 10.18 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.18 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 00:35:56 / April 8, 2020 @ 12:35 am. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:35:56 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39141695. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39141695.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mead Valley, Eucalyptus Hills, Lakeland Village (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 15 km ESE of Anza, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.5231705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5008316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2020-04-08 00:35:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-08 00:44:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 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 157 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 ci39141695 Id of event.
Event Code 39141695 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39141695, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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