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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Wasco in California

Posted by admin on February 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5455S, -119.3718333WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Wasco in California on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 00:02:23 / February 24, 2016 @ 12:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:02:23 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Wasco in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -119.3718333 West, latitude 35.5455 North, depth = 21.45 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.45 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ci37528064. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o30yrz, ci37528064, nc72596550.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodlake, Huron, Tehachapi. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SSW of Wasco, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.3718333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Wasco, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-24 00:02:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 00:16:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 280 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.58 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 509 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 ,at,ci,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 1 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37528064 Id of event.
Event Code 37528064 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o30yrz,ci37528064,nc72596550, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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