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Minor earthquake 3.28 mag, 21 km NE of Twain Harte, California


Earthquake location 38.1638336S, -120.0511703WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Twain Harte in California. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/17 / 2017-03-29 04:18:26 / March 29, 2017 @ 4:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.89 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -120.0511703 West, latitude 38.1638336 North, depth = 3.89 km. Event id: nc72781956. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72781956. The temblor was detected at 20:18:26 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Ione (c. 7 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pollock Pines (c. 6 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Rancho Calaveras (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pollock Pines, Ione, Rancho Calaveras (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NE of Twain Harte, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0511703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1638336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE of Twain Harte, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-29 04:18:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-29 04:25:02 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 166 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72781956 Id of event.
Event Code 72781956 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72781956, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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