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Minor earthquake: M3.33 quake strikes near Bridgeport in California


Earthquake location 38.4389992S, -119.2611694WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (mg/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bridgeport in California. The temblor was reported at 01:56:56 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 12.62 km (8 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-06 09:56:56 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -119.2611694 West, latitude 38.4389992 North, depth 12.62 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Gardnerville (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Johnson Lane, Gardnerville, Gardnerville Ranchos.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.2611694° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4389992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NNW of Bridgeport, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-06 09:56:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-06 09:59:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 171 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 ncnn A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 nc72376166 Id of event.
Event Code 72376166 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nc72376166nn00475638 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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