Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Bishop in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 32 km E of Bishop, California (20 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00690886. Unique identifier: nn00690886. Exact location of event, longitude -118.0312 West, latitude 37.4118 North, depth = 16.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:25:56 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:25:56 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:25 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km E of Bishop, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4118° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km E of Bishop, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-06 03:25:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-06 03:42:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.495	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	189	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.885	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215.14	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	nn00690886	Id of event.
Event Code	00690886	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00690886,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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