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Minor earthquake: M3.06 quake has struck near Olancha in CA


Earthquake location 36.4379997S, -117.9509964WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 km NNE of Olancha, CA (11 miles). Event id: ci39494088. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39494088. The temblor was picked up at 18:14:18 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.99 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 18:14:18 / June 24, 2020 @ 6:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 6.99 km, -117.9509964° West, 36.4379997° North.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km NNE of Olancha, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9509964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4379997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE 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 2020-06-24 18:14:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 18:16:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 144 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 ci39494088 Id of event.
Event Code 39494088 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39494088, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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