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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near New Idria in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from New Idria in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 02:21:30 / March 1, 2018 @ 2:21 am. Unique identifier: nc72977681. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72977681. Exact location of event, longitude -120.5858307 West, latitude 36.5639992 North, depth = 5.65 km. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:30 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.65 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos, Lemoore, Gonzales (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 18 km NNE of New Idria, CA.

Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos CA Fresno Gonzales Lemoore Los Banos Madera New Idria Soledad United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.5858307° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5639992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNE of New Idria, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-01 02:21:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-01 02:24:06	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	146	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	117	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2866	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	nc72977681	Id of event.
Event Code	72977681	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72977681,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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