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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Olancha in California


Earthquake location 36.234333S, -117.517334WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Olancha in California on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.8 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 21:42:31 / February 20, 2016 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 13:42:31 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.517334 West, latitude 36.234333 North, depth = 1.8 km. Event id: ci37526720. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37526720, nn00532382.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km E of Olancha, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.517334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.234333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E of Olancha, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-20 21:42:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 21:58:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 147 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 ci37526720 Id of event.
Event Code 37526720 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37526720,nn00532382, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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