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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag has occurred near Stovepipe Wells in California


Earthquake location 36.3801651S, -117.4673309WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 km SW of Stovepipe Wells, California (24 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 14:50:39 / May 13, 2016 @ 2:50 pm. The temblor was detected at 07:50:39 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.4673309 West, latitude 36.3801651 North, depth = -1.18 km. Unique identifier: ci37566648. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37566648, nc72635160. The epicenter was at a depth of -1.18 km (-1 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 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: 38 km SW of Stovepipe Wells, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4673309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3801651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SW of Stovepipe Wells, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-13 14:50:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 14:55:28 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 5.04 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 183 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,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 ci37566648 Id of event.
Event Code 37566648 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37566648,nc72635160, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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