Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Janesville in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Janesville in California on Thursday. Event id: nn00599112. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72858911, nn00599112. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 21:25:01 / August 3, 2017 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 14.9 km, -119.9833° West, 40.4076° North. The temblor was picked up at 13:25:01 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.9 km (9 miles).

The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cold Springs (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cold Springs, Susanville.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 in the same area.

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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: 47 km ENE of Janesville, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.9833° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4076° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km 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 21:25:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-03 21:42:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.01	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	200	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.288	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.147 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60.8	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	nn00599112	Id of event.
Event Code	00599112	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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