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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Big Pine in CA

Posted by admin on April 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0793333S, -117.8941667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 36 km ESE of Big Pine, CA (22 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 20:25:55 / April 18, 2016 @ 8:25 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.8941667° West, latitude 37.0793333° North, depth = -0.27 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00540953, us20005jky, ci37138884, nc72623960. Unique identifier: ci37138884. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:25:55 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.27 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 36 km ESE of Big Pine, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8941667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0793333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Big Pine, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-18 20:25:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-19 00:40:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 reviewed 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 142 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 ,nn,us,ci,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2507 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 72 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 ci37138884 Id of event.
Event Code 37138884 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00540953,us20005jky,ci37138884,nc72623960, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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