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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Cantua Creek in CA


Earthquake location 36.4206657S, -120.2666702WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cantua Creek in CA. The temblor was detected at 17:30:50 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.53 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 01:30:50 / January 25, 2019 @ 1:30 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73136191. Id of event: nc73136191. Exact location, longitude -120.2666702° West, latitude 36.4206657° North, depth = 6.53 km.

The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Corcoran (c. 24 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dinuba, Chowchilla, Reedley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SSE of Cantua Creek, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.2666702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4206657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE 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 2019-01-25 01:30:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-25 01:39:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 151 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 nc73136191 Id of event.
Event Code 73136191 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73136191, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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