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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Bridgeport in California

Posted by admin on January 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.267S, -119.001WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bridgeport in California on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 14:26:43 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc72746710. Event ids that are associated: nn00571780, nc72746710. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 22:26:43 / December 31, 2016 @ 10:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -119.001 West, latitude 38.267 North, depth = 2.82 km.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km E of Bridgeport, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.267° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E 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 2016-12-31 22:26:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-03 20:04:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.04 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 168 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 ,nn,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 nc72746710 Id of event.
Event Code 72746710 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00571780,nc72746710, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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