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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Searles Valley in California

Posted by admin on May 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1299S, -117.664WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Searles Valley in California. Exact location, longitude -117.664° West, latitude 36.1299° North, depth = 0 km. Event id: nn00684677. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00684677. Global time and date of event 13/05/19 / 2019-05-13 20:45:26 / May 13, 2019 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:45:26 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0 km (0 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 46 km NNW of Searles Valley, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNW of Searles Valley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-13 20:45:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-13 20:58:32 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 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 138 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.202 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.39 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 nn00684677 Id of event.
Event Code 00684677 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00684677, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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