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Minor earthquake 3.22 mag, 10 km SW of Buttonwillow, CA


Earthquake location 35.3421669S, -119.5513306WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Buttonwillow in CA. Event id: ci40193754. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40193754. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.5513306 West, latitude 35.3421669 North, depth = -0.67 km. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.67 km (-0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/25 / 2025-02-25 06:10:18 / February 25, 2025 @ 6:10 am. The temblor was reported at 06:10:18 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arvin, Earlimart, Lamont. Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SW of Buttonwillow, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.5513306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3421669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SW of Buttonwillow, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-25 06:10:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-25 06:12:51 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 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 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 ci40193754 Id of event.
Event Code 40193754 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40193754, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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