Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Mettler in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mettler in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:13:16 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -119.0778° West, latitude 35.0857° North, depth = 12.782 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:13:16 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000niii. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000niii. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.782 km (8 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castaic, Fillmore, Delano (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WNW of Mettler, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0857° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.782 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km WNW of Mettler, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-07 04:13:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 05:06:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.553	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us6000niii	Id of event.
Event Code	6000niii	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000niii,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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