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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Johannesburg in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Johannesburg in CA. Event id: ci39083439. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39083439. The temblor was detected at 14:35:19 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.8198318 West, latitude 35.3574982 North, depth = 1.47 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/20 / 2020-02-25 22:35:19 / February 25, 2020 @ 10:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lancaster, Alta Sierra, Bear Valley Springs (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-eight 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 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: 17 km W of Johannesburg, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8198318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3574982° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km W of Johannesburg, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-25 22:35:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-25 22:44:27	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	2.2	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	150	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	80	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09235	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	ci39083439	Id of event.
Event Code	39083439	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39083439,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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