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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Kernville in CA


Earthquake location 36.0066667S, -118.395WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Kernville in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 08:35:09 / December 20, 2017 @ 8:35 am. Exact location of event, longitude -118.395 West, latitude 36.0066667 North, depth = 2.51 km. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:35:09 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.51 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37833503. Id of event: ci37833503.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Lindsay (c. 11 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Exeter (c. 10 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from East Porterville (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km N of Kernville, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.395° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0066667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km N of Kernville, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-20 08:35:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-20 08:38:40 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 126 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2991 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 87 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 ci37833503 Id of event.
Event Code 37833503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37833503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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