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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Kettleman City in CA

Posted by admin on August 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0318336S, -119.9944992WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kettleman City in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.9944992 West, latitude 36.0318336 North, depth = 8.15 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:39 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73074930. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73074930. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.15 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/18 / 2018-08-24 00:45:39 / August 24, 2018 @ 12:45 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kerman, Parlier, Wasco. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NW of Kettleman City, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.9944992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0318336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of Kettleman City, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-24 00:45:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 00:54:05 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 125 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73074930 Id of event.
Event Code 73074930 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73074930, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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