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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 8 km W of Mettler, California


Earthquake location 35.0708S, -119.0647WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Mettler in California on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:12:12 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:12 am. Exact location of event, longitude -119.0647 West, latitude 35.0708 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:12:12 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nii6. Id of event: us6000nii6.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valencia, Santa Paula, Delano (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Paula (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 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 seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 8 km W of Mettler, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0647° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km W 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 04:12:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 05:01:32 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 188 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000nii6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nii6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nii6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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