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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag was detected near Diablo in CA

Posted by admin on February 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.841835S, -121.9800034WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Diablo in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/02/18 / 2018-02-20 12:25:43 / February 20, 2018 @ 12:25 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.35 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: nc72972576. Event ids that are associated: nc72972576. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:25:43 / 4:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.9800034° West, 37.841835° North, depth 5.35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ripon, Winters, Galt (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km WNW of Diablo, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.9800034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.841835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WNW of Diablo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-20 12:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-20 12:30:03 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 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 134 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 nc72972576 Id of event.
Event Code 72972576 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72972576, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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