Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Porterville in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Porterville in CA on Sunday. Unique identifier: ci37612991. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37612991. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 27/03/17 / 2017-03-27 01:45:55 / March 27, 2017 @ 1:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7191696 West, latitude 36.1635017 North, depth = 3 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:45:55 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Corcoran (c. 24 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Reedley (c. 24 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reedley, Corcoran, Orange Cove (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km ENE of Porterville, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Corcoran Delano Orange Cove Porterville Reedley Tulare United States Visalia

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7191696° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1635017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km ENE of Porterville, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-27 01:45:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-27 01:48:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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		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	188	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,	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	0.05309	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	39	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37612991	Id of event.
Event Code	37612991	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37612991,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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