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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Kernville in CA

Posted by admin on September 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7771667S, -118.2445WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kernville in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.87 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:13:57 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37372850. Id of event: ci37372850. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 15:13:57 / September 28, 2018 @ 3:13 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -118.2445° West, 35.7771667° North, depth 8.87 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bear Valley Springs, Porterville, California City. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Golden Hills (c. 8 700 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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km E of Kernville, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.2445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7771667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Kernville, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 15:13:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-28 15:31:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.41 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 157 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci37372850 Id of event.
Event Code 37372850 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37372850, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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