Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Morongo Valley in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Morongo Valley in CA. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:08:44 / 8:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.2 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci41257504. Unique identifier: ci41257504. Exact location of event, longitude -116.6423333 West, latitude 33.9925 North, depth = 7.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/25 / 2025-08-09 20:08:44 / August 9, 2025 @ 8:08 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Glen Avon, Hesperia, Oasis (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fontana (c. 196 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop). 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. 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 ten, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 8 km SW of Morongo Valley, CA.

CA Fontana Glen Avon Hesperia Moreno Valley Morongo Valley Murrieta Oasis Riverside San Bernardino United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.6423333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9925° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SW of Morongo Valley, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-09 20:08:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-09 20:12:36	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	2.2	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	135	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	114	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	ci41257504	Id of event.
Event Code	41257504	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41257504,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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