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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in California


Earthquake location 35.6233S, -117.5795WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ridgecrest in California. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:39:35 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:39 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5795 West, latitude 35.6233 North, depth = 12.18 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:39:35 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70004a0p. Event ids that are associated: ci38443215, us70004a0p. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.18 km (8 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 8 km (5 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 8 km E of Ridgecrest, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km E of Ridgecrest, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 17:39:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 22:52:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 52 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.962 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 267 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us70004a0p Id of event.
Event Code 70004a0p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443215,us70004a0p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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