Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Kettleman City in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kettleman City in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 09:16:56 / September 13, 2020 @ 9:16 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.8704987 West, latitude 35.9025002 North, depth = 6 km. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:16:56 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73457261. Event ids that are associated: nc73457261.

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porterville, Exeter, Selma (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SE of Kettleman City, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Delano Exeter Hanford Kettleman City Porterville Selma Tulare United States Visalia

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.8704987° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9025002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SE of Kettleman City, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-13 09:16:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-13 09:20:29	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	132	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2399	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	nc73457261	Id of event.
Event Code	73457261	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73457261,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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