Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Cantua Creek in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cantua Creek in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.57 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 23:13:04 / March 25, 2020 @ 11:13 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:13:04 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73359430. Event ids that are associated: nc73359430. Exact location, longitude -120.4779968° West, latitude 36.4761658° North, depth = 7.57 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Selma, Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos, Hanford. Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km WSW of Cantua Creek, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos CA Cantua Creek Fresno Hanford Los Banos Madera Selma Soledad United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.4779968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4761658° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km WSW of Cantua Creek, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-25 23:13:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-25 23:14:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	135	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2185	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	nc73359430	Id of event.
Event Code	73359430	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73359430,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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