Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag was detected near Olancha in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) strikes 18 km NE of Olancha, CA (11 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: ci37449175. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37449175, nc72679341. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:39:54 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.95 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 18/08/16 / 2016-08-18 03:39:54 / August 18, 2016 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -117.8673325° West, latitude 36.4001656° North, depth = 0.95 km.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km NE of Olancha, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.55 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8673325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4001656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NE of Olancha, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-18 03:39:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-18 04:01:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.66	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	195	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1587	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	ci37449175	Id of event.
Event Code	37449175	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37449175,nc72679341,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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