Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Buttonwillow in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Buttonwillow in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/25 / 2025-03-05 11:03:01 / March 5, 2025 @ 11:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.94 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -119.3330002° West, latitude 35.2836685° North, depth = 16.94 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:03:01 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci41071720. Ids that are associated to the event: ci41071720.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Golden Hills, Earlimart, Bear Valley Springs (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.3330002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2836685° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km SE 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	2025-03-05 11:03:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-05 11:06:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	168	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	0.1546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	ci41071720	Id of event.
Event Code	41071720	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41071720,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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