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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Bridgeport in California


Earthquake location 38.0651S, -118.7237WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Bridgeport in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70008twc. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73367320, nn00721588, us70008twc. The temblor was reported at 06:51:14 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.7237° West, latitude 38.0651° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 14:51:14 / April 11, 2020 @ 2:51 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 49 km ESE of Bridgeport, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7237° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km 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 14:51:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 16:10:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3 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 174 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.253 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 66 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 us70008twc Id of event.
Event Code 70008twc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73367320,nn00721588,us70008twc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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