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Minor earthquake, 3.51 mag strikes near Johannesburg in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Johannesburg in CA on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 06:15:11 / February 15, 2017 @ 6:15 am. Exact location of event, depth 0.73 km, -117.2819977° West, 35.2050018° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.73 km (0 miles). The 3.51-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:15:11 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37583871. Id of event: ci37583871.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lake Los Angeles, Apple Valley, Victorville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Adelanto (c. 31 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 37 km ESE of Johannesburg, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.2819977° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2050018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km ESE of Johannesburg, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-15 06:15:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-15 06:17:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	190	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	99	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1937	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	ci37583871	Id of event.
Event Code	37583871	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37583871,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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