Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Tehachapi in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Tehachapi in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.77 km (1 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:57:23 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -118.5084991° West, 35.338665° North, depth 1.77 km. Id of earthquake: ci39452551. Event ids that are associated: ci39452551. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/20 / 2020-10-31 20:57:23 / October 31, 2020 @ 8:57 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McFarland, Shafter, Rosamond. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Shafter (c. 17 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 24 km NNW of Tehachapi, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.5084991° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.338665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km NNW of Tehachapi, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-31 20:57:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-31 20:59:40	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	129	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	80	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1824	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	ci39452551	Id of event.
Event Code	39452551	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39452551,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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