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Minor earthquake 3.68 mag, 9 km NNW of Cantua Creek, CA


Earthquake location 36.577167510986S, -120.360496521WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cantua Creek in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -120.360496521 West, latitude 36.577167510986 North, depth = 1.9800000190735 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 23:31:51 / December 20, 2024 @ 11:31 pm. The 3.68-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:31:51 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75106056. Event ids that are associated: nc75106056. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.9800000190735 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Greenfield, Merced, Reedley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 9 km NNW of Cantua Creek, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.360496521° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.577167510986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.9800000190735 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NNW of Cantua Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-20 23:31:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-20 23:37:36 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 4.179 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 208 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 130 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 nc75106056 Id of event.
Event Code 75106056 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75106056, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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