Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Fort Bidwell in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 48 km E of Fort Bidwell, California (30 miles). Global time and date of event 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 05:34:50 / March 12, 2025 @ 5:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -119.568° West, 41.9012° North, depth 6.7 km. Id of earthquake: nn00894615. Event ids that are associated: nn00894615. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:34:50 / 5:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 48 km E of Fort Bidwell, 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	-119.568° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9012° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km E of Fort Bidwell, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-12 05:34:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 16:01:02	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	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.365	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2066 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113.93	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	nn00894615	Id of event.
Event Code	00894615	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00894615,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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