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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California

Posted by admin on October 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.9753S, -118.1298WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 70 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California (43 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:55:32 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.2 km (9 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00609203. Event ids that are associated: nn00609203, us1000as0d. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 02:55:32 / October 14, 2017 @ 2:55 am. Exact location of event, depth 15.2 km, -118.1298° West, 37.9753° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1298° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-14 02:55:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 03:09:56 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 121 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 ,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50.18 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 nn00609203 Id of event.
Event Code 00609203 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00609203,us1000as0d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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