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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Bridgeport in California


Earthquake location 38.0933S, -118.7361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Bridgeport in California on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00721784. Id of event: nn00721784. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.7 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:02:23 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 18:02:23 / April 11, 2020 @ 6:02 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7361 West, latitude 38.0933 North, depth = 1.7 km.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 46 km ESE of Bridgeport, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ESE 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 2020-04-11 18:02:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 20:51:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.8 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 211 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1561 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86.82 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 nn00721784 Id of event.
Event Code 00721784 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00721784, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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