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Minor earthquake, 3.71 mag has occurred near Coalinga in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Coalinga in California on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 12.73 km, -120.354332° West, 36.2434998° North. Event id: nc72705776. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72705776. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:53:29 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.73 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 07:53:29 / October 1, 2016 @ 7:53 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clovis, Parlier, Madera (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (48 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Corcoran (c. 24 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km N of Coalinga, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.354332° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2434998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km N of Coalinga, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-01 07:53:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-01 07:59:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.77	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	212	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	96	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09294	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	nc72705776	Id of event.
Event Code	72705776	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72705776,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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