Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Independence in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 25 km NE of Independence, California (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.9937 West, latitude 36.957 North, depth = 0.1 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Global time and date of event 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 12:11:37 / July 3, 2020 @ 12:11 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: nn00756260. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00756260. The temblor was reported at 12:11:37 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 25 km NE of Independence, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.9937° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.957° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km NE of Independence, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-03 12:11:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 12:39:46	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.243	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262.83	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	nn00756260	Id of event.
Event Code	00756260	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00756260,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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