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Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 14 km ESE of Lake Isabella, CA


Earthquake location 35.5671654S, -118.3308334WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lake Isabella in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 17:41:24 / April 24, 2017 @ 5:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37865792, nc72793346. Unique identifier: ci37865792. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.3308334 West, latitude 35.5671654 North, depth = 1.5 km. The temblor was reported at 09:41:24 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.5 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosamond, East Porterville, Rosedale (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km ESE of Lake Isabella, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.3308334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5671654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ESE of Lake Isabella, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-24 17:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 17:52:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 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 154 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 ci37865792 Id of event.
Event Code 37865792 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37865792,nc72793346, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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