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Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, 5 km SE of Taylorsville, CA


Earthquake location 40.0408325S, -120.805336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Taylorsville in CA on Friday. Exact location, longitude -120.805336° West, latitude 40.0408325° North, depth = -1.8 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:03:12 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.8 km (-1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73125221. Unique identifier: nc73125221. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 05:03:12 / December 22, 2018 @ 5:03 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paradise, Magalia, Susanville (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km SE of Taylorsville, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.805336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0408325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-22 05:03:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 05:15:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 153 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 nc73125221 Id of event.
Event Code 73125221 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73125221, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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