Minor earthquake, 3.71 mag strikes near Baker in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Baker in California. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 19:56:11 / January 14, 2018 @ 7:56 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38087400. Id of event: ci38087400. Exact location, longitude -116.0731659° West, latitude 34.8163338° North, depth = 4.17 km. The temblor was detected at 11:56:11 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.17 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Joshua Tree (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 49 km S of Baker, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0731659° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.8163338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km S of Baker, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-14 19:56:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-14 20:03:17	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	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.55	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	212	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1479	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci38087400	Id of event.
Event Code	38087400	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38087400,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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