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Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag was detected near Olancha in CA

Posted by admin on August 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2016678S, -118.1640015WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Olancha in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.88 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38946464. Unique identifier: ci38946464. The temblor was picked up at 20:39:07 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 04:39:07 / August 9, 2019 @ 4:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, -118.1640015° West, 36.2016678° North, depth 0.88 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest, Porterville, East Porterville (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from East Porterville (c. 6 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km WSW of Olancha, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1640015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2016678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WSW 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 2019-08-09 04:39:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 04:41:15 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 162 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 ci38946464 Id of event.
Event Code 38946464 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38946464, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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