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Minor earthquake: M3.75 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.7231674S, -117.5756683WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:40:02 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:02 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443223. Unique identifier: ci38443223. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.1 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.5756683° West, latitude 35.7231674° North, depth = 3.1 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 14 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.75 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5756683° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7231674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE 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 17:40:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 18:01:25 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 6.22 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 216 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1647 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 63 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 ci38443223 Id of event.
Event Code 38443223 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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