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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 68 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California


Earthquake location 37.9628S, -118.1228WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 68 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California (42 miles). Unique identifier: nn00611343. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72917986, nn00611343. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:05:55 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.1228 West, latitude 37.9628 North, depth = 0 km. Global time and date of event 03/11/17 / 2017-11-03 01:05:55 / November 3, 2017 @ 1:05 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 68 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2017-11-03 01:05:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-03 01:23:03 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 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 158 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1674 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171.73 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 nn00611343 Id of event.
Event Code 00611343 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72917986,nn00611343, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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