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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

Posted by admin on May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.6528333S, -121.3943333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 80 km W of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (50 miles) on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 04:12:19 / May 2, 2016 @ 4:12 am. Event id: nc72629640. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72629640. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.98 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.3943333 West, latitude 34.6528333 North, depth = 8.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:12:19 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 80 km W of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3943333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6528333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km W of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-02 04:12:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-03 16:47:02 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 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 125 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72629640 Id of event.
Event Code 72629640 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72629640, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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