Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag was detected near Olancha in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 18 km NE of Olancha, CA (11 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:31:17 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.02 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8655014 West, latitude 36.4003334 North, depth = 1.02 km. Global time and date of event 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 04:31:17 / September 3, 2016 @ 4:31 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci37468263. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72689351, ci37468263.

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km NE of Olancha, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.47 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8655014° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4003334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.02 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	2016-09-03 04:31:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-03 04:36:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.1	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	185	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	,nc,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37468263	Id of event.
Event Code	37468263	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72689351,ci37468263,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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