Minor earthquake, 3.73 mag has occurred near Janesville in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.73 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Janesville in California on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 11:31:03 / August 2, 2016 @ 11:31 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72669395. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72669395, nn00554241. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.95 km (-1 miles). The 3.73-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:31:03 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -120.2174988° West, 40.145668° North, depth -1.95 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Reno, Sun Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cold Springs (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km ESE of Janesville, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.73 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.2174988° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.145668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ESE of Janesville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-02 11:31:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-02 11:38:05	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	3.74	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	214	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,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0674	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	nc72669395	Id of event.
Event Code	72669395	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72669395,nn00554241,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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