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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Bridgeport in CA


Earthquake location 38.355S, -119.2915WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Bridgeport in CA on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.44 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: nc73307431. Event ids that are associated: nn00711352, us70006bng, nc73307431. The temblor was reported at 06:42:55 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/19 / 2019-11-22 14:42:55 / November 22, 2019 @ 2:42 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -119.2915 West, latitude 38.355 North, depth = 2.44 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gardnerville, Gardnerville Ranchos. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Gardnerville (c. 5 700 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNW of Bridgeport, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.2915° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNW of Bridgeport, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-22 14:42:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-03 01:48:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 160 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn,us,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 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 nc73307431 Id of event.
Event Code 73307431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00711352,us70006bng,nc73307431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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