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Minor earthquake 2.56 mag, 26 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, California


Earthquake location 37.482666S, -119.3679962WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.56 (mg/mb) has striked on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Yosemite Valley in California. The temblor was reported at 04:13:17 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 17.26 km (11 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-13 12:13:17 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -119.3679962 West, latitude 37.482666 North, depth 17.26 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.3679962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.482666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Yosemite Valley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-12-13 12:13:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-12-13 12:18:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 101 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 ncnn A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72364146 Id of event.
Event Code 72364146 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nc72364146nn00471797 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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