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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 46 km ENE of Bishop, California


Earthquake location 37.555S, -117.9247WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 46 km ENE of Bishop, California (29 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00687411. Event ids that are associated: nc73196616, nn00687411. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.3 km (5 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:16:20 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 18:16:20 / June 12, 2019 @ 6:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.9247° West, 37.555° North, depth 7.3 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km ENE of Bishop, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ENE of Bishop, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-12 18:16:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 18:20:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 199 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 ,nc,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.69 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 nn00687411 Id of event.
Event Code 00687411 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73196616,nn00687411, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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