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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Big Pine in California

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9588S, -118.2457WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 km S of Big Pine, California (14 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 21:24:43 / May 12, 2016 @ 9:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.2457 West, latitude 36.9588 North, depth = 11.5 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:24:43 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00543943. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00543943.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km S of Big Pine, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.2457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km S of Big Pine, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-12 21:24:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 21:49:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1318 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 nn00543943 Id of event.
Event Code 00543943 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00543943, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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