Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Bootjack in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Bootjack in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.22 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -119.9946671 West, latitude 37.3103333 North, depth = 17.22 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 11:46:24 / March 21, 2020 @ 11:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73356855. Id of event: nc73356855. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:46:24 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Atwater (c. 28 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waterford, Hilmar-Irwin, Mendota (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km SSW of Bootjack, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Atwater Bootjack CA Clovis Fresno Hilmar-Irwin Madera Mendota Merced United States Waterford

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.9946671° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3103333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km SSW of Bootjack, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-21 11:46:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-21 11:48:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	128	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2087	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	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc73356855	Id of event.
Event Code	73356855	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73356855,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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