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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Johannesburg in California


Earthquake location 35.402S, -117.8118333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Johannesburg in California on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.37 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:08:39 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.8118333° West, latitude 35.402° North, depth = 6.37 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37520472. Id of event: ci37520472. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/16 / 2016-02-04 21:08:39 / February 4, 2016 @ 9:08 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Golden Hills, Rosamond (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Golden Hills (c. 8 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km WNW of Johannesburg, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8118333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Johannesburg, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-04 21:08:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-04 21:13:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 127 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 ci37520472 Id of event.
Event Code 37520472 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37520472, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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