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Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 130 km W of Trinidad, CA


Earthquake location 41.2784996S, -125.6654968WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 130 km W of Trinidad, CA (81 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/20 / 2020-09-23 07:19:15 / September 23, 2020 @ 7:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 4.61 km, -125.6654968° West, 41.2784996° North. Unique identifier: nc73461791. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73461791. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.61 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:19:15 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: 130 km W of Trinidad, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.6654968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.2784996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km W of Trinidad, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-23 07:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-23 07:21:05 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 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 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 nc73461791 Id of event.
Event Code 73461791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73461791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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