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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Mariposa in CA


Earthquake location 37.3773346S, -119.9800034WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mariposa in CA on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 15:14:55 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 17.85 km, -119.9800034° West, 37.3773346° North. Id of earthquake: nc73314451. Event ids that are associated: nc73314451. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.85 km (11 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/19 / 2019-12-13 23:14:55 / December 13, 2019 @ 11:14 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendota, Turlock, Hilmar-Irwin (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Turlock (c. 68 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 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 has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 12 km S of Mariposa, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.9800034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3773346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of Mariposa, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-13 23:14:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-13 23:17:38 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 141 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1928 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 nc73314451 Id of event.
Event Code 73314451 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73314451, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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