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Minor earthquake 3.54 mag, 2 km S of Mentone, California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mentone in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.25 km (8 miles). The 3.54-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:47:35 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 13.25 km, -117.1388321° West, 34.0460014° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 01:47:35 / February 15, 2018 @ 1:47 am. Id of earthquake: ci38109080. Event ids that are associated: ci38109080.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Costa Mesa, Sierra Madre, Temple City. Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km S of Mentone, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.54 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1388321° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0460014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km S of Mentone, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-15 01:47:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-15 01:49:43	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		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	193	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	110	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0691	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	34	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	ci38109080	Id of event.
Event Code	38109080	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38109080,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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