Minor earthquake: M3.33 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 23:54:36 / July 4, 2019 @ 11:54 pm. Id of earthquake: ci38445839. Event ids that are associated: ci38445839. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5218353 West, latitude 35.6571655 North, depth = 1.67 km. The temblor was detected at 15:54:36 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.67 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5218353° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6571655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.67 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 23:54:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-04 23:57:05	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	171	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08563	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci38445839	Id of event.
Event Code	38445839	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38445839,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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