Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near Fontana in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Fontana in CA on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 17:50:22 / August 19, 2020 @ 5:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4294968° West, 34.112999° North, depth 13.5 km. Event id: ci39584688. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39584688. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:50:22 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Clemente, North Glendale, Florence-Graham (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km ENE of Fontana, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Anaheim CA Florence-Graham Fontana Irvine Los Angeles North Glendale Riverside San Clemente Santa Ana United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4294968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.112999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km ENE of Fontana, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-19 17:50:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-19 17:58:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	49	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.9	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	160	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	95	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01544	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23	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	ci39584688	Id of event.
Event Code	39584688	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39584688,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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