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Minor earthquake, 3.91 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6588326S, -117.5274963WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 23:34:00 / July 4, 2019 @ 11:34 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.04 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.5274963° West, 35.6588326° North, depth 5.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:34:00 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38445703. Event ids that are associated: ci38445703.

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days seventy-two, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5274963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6588326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 23:34:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 23:36:20 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 235 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08966 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 44 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 ci38445703 Id of event.
Event Code 38445703 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38445703, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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