Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Tehachapi in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Tehachapi in CA. The temblor was detected at 06:56:47 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37568120. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37568120, nc72635950. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.79 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 13:56:47 / May 15, 2016 @ 1:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.4876667 West, latitude 35.0073333 North, depth = 7.79 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Palmdale (c. 152 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lake Los Angeles, Rosedale, Greenacres.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SSW of Tehachapi, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bakersfield CA Greenacres Lake Los Angeles Lancaster Palmdale Rosedale Santa Clarita Tehachapi United States Valencia

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.4876667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0073333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSW of Tehachapi, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-15 13:56:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-15 14:08:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	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	128	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,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1211	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	ci37568120	Id of event.
Event Code	37568120	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37568120,nc72635950,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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