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


Earthquake location 34.2055016S, -117.6504974WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Rancho Cucamonga in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.27 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/20 / 2020-09-23 12:24:27 / September 23, 2020 @ 12:24 pm. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:24:27 / 12:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.6504974 West, latitude 34.2055016 North, depth = 2.27 km. Event id: ci38700978. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38700978.

The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rolling Hills Estates, Santa Monica, San Jacinto (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 11 km NW of Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6504974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2055016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Rancho Cucamonga, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-23 12:24:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-23 12:29:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.68 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 143 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 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 ci38700978 Id of event.
Event Code 38700978 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38700978, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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