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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Olancha in CA


Earthquake location 36.3208351S, -118.3463364WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Olancha in CA on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38677967. Unique identifier: ci38677967. The temblor was picked up at 14:59:47 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.3463364° West, latitude 36.3208351° North, depth = -1.32 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -1.32 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 22:59:47 / July 31, 2019 @ 10:59 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lindsay (c. 11 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Farmersville (c. 10 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Exeter (c. 10 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Woodlake (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farmersville, Exeter, Alta Sierra (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 31 km W of Olancha, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.3463364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3208351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km W of Olancha, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-31 22:59:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 23:08:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 148 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2455 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 80 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 ci38677967 Id of event.
Event Code 38677967 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38677967, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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