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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Olancha in CA

Posted by admin on December 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2081667S, -117.8921667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Olancha in CA on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/20 / 2020-12-18 18:57:12 / December 18, 2020 @ 6:57 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39497079. Unique identifier: ci39497079. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8921667 West, latitude 36.2081667 North, depth = 1.01 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.01 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:57:12 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SE of Olancha, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8921667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2081667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE 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 2020-12-18 18:57:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-18 19:03:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 125 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09531 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 57 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 ci39497079 Id of event.
Event Code 39497079 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39497079, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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