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Minor earthquake, 3.63 mag strikes near Oildale in CA


Earthquake location 35.3833351S, -118.9649963WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Oildale in CA. Global time and date of event 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 04:52:31 / May 27, 2020 @ 4:52 am UTC/GMT. The 3.63-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:52:31 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.9649963° West, latitude 35.3833351° North, depth = 15.82 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.82 km (10 miles). Id of earthquake: ci39218863. Event ids that are associated: ci39218863.

Event epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Porterville (c. 54 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porterville, East Porterville, Earlimart (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SE of Oildale, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9649963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3833351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of Oildale, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-27 04:52:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 04:55:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 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 204 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 0.1204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39218863 Id of event.
Event Code 39218863 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39218863, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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