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Minor earthquake 3.06 mag, 10 km NNE of Oakhurst, CA


Earthquake location 37.4098333S, -119.6053333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Oakhurst in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -119.6053333° West, 37.4098333° North, depth 43.4 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 06:32:58 / October 22, 2018 @ 6:32 am. The temblor was reported at 22:32:58 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73100261. Event ids that are associated: nc73100261. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.4 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merced, Sanger, Fresno (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sanger (c. 24 300 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNE of Oakhurst, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6053333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4098333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Oakhurst, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-22 06:32:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 18:15:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 53 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 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 164 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 nc73100261 Id of event.
Event Code 73100261 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73100261, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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