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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag strikes near Janesville in California


Earthquake location 40.3831673S, -120.0296631WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Janesville in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -2.02 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.0296631° West, latitude 40.3831673° North, depth = -2.02 km. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:25:02 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72858911. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72858911, nn00599112. Global time and date of event 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 21:25:02 / August 3, 2017 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lemmon Valley, Cold Springs, Susanville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cold Springs (c. 8 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Lemmon Valley (c. 5 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km ENE of Janesville, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0296631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3831673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -2.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ENE of Janesville, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-03 21:25:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-03 21:29:21 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 194 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 nc72858911 Id of event.
Event Code 72858911 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72858911,nn00599112, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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