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Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag was detected near Avenal in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Avenal in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75057881. Unique identifier: nc75057881. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:04:29 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -120.16733551025° West, latitude 36.069999694824° North, depth = 11.739999771118 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.739999771118 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 20:04:29 / September 5, 2024 @ 8:04 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Visalia, Earlimart, Fresno (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km NNW of Avenal, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.58 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.16733551025° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.069999694824° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.739999771118 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNW of Avenal, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-05 20:04:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-05 20:07:37	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	197	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01919	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	nc75057881	Id of event.
Event Code	75057881	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75057881,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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