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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag strikes near Bodfish in CA

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Earthquake location 35.494S, -118.5156667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Bodfish in CA on Friday. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:51:42 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.5156667 West, latitude 35.494 North, depth = 3.36 km. Id of earthquake: ci40550039. Event ids that are associated: ci40550039, us7000md2q. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.36 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 04:51:42 / April 19, 2024 @ 4:51 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porterville, Ridgecrest, Rosamond. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 11 km SSW of Bodfish, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5156667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSW of Bodfish, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-19 04:51:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 00:20:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 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 160 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1718 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 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 ci40550039 Id of event.
Event Code 40550039 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40550039,us7000md2q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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