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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near Avenal in CA

Posted by admin on November 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0768318S, -120.196167WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Avenal in CA on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 09:29:57 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73116451. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73116451. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.91 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -120.196167° West, 36.0768318° North, depth 10.91 km. Global time and date of event 27/11/18 / 2018-11-27 17:29:57 / November 27, 2018 @ 5:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Corcoran (c. 24 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Selma (c. 23 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendota, Fowler, Selma (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 10 km NW of Avenal, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.196167° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0768318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Avenal, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-27 17:29:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-27 17:35:03 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 130 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 nc73116451 Id of event.
Event Code 73116451 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73116451, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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