Minor earthquake: M3.14 quake has struck near Stratford in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Stratford in CA. The temblor was detected at 13:34:42 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.210000038147 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -119.84300231934° West, latitude 36.140998840332° North, depth = 13.210000038147 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75086336. Id of event: nc75086336. Global time and date of event 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 13:34:42 / November 14, 2024 @ 1:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Visalia (c. 124 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tulare (c. 59 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was East Porterville, Clovis, Wasco (min 5000 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SSW of Stratford, CA.

CA Clovis East Porterville Fresno Porterville Stratford Tulare United States Visalia Wasco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.84300231934° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.140998840332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.210000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SSW of Stratford, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-14 13:34:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-14 13:36:50	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	152	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1481	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	34	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	nc75086336	Id of event.
Event Code	75086336	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75086336,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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