Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Cantua Creek in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cantua Creek in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.19 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:39:34 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/20 / 2020-09-01 01:39:34 / September 1, 2020 @ 1:39 am. Exact location of event, depth 9.19 km, -120.437° West, 36.3943333° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bfix, nc73451996. Id of event: nc73451996.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Madera Acres, Selma, Greenfield. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Selma (c. 23 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SW of Cantua Creek, CA.

CA Cantua Creek Fresno Greenfield Hanford Lemoore Madera Madera Acres Selma United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.437° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3943333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SW 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	2020-09-01 01:39:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-03 03:35:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	reviewed	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	127	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	,us,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	128	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3439	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	33	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	nc73451996	Id of event.
Event Code	73451996	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bfix,nc73451996,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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