Minor earthquake, 3.63 mag strikes near Oildale in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Oildale in CA. Global time and date of event 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 04:52:31 / May 27, 2020 @ 4:52 am UTC/GMT. The 3.63-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:52:31 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.9649963° West, latitude 35.3833351° North, depth = 15.82 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.82 km (10 miles). Id of earthquake: ci39218863. Event ids that are associated: ci39218863.

Event epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porterville, East Porterville, Earlimart (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SE of Oildale, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.63 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9649963° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3833351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SE of Oildale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-27 04:52:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-27 04:55:44	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	4.7	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	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	204	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	93	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1204	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci39218863	Id of event.
Event Code	39218863	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39218863,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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