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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 13 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6696667S, -117.48WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 11:27:18 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.24 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci38443895. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38443895. Exact location of event, depth 6.24 km, -117.48° West, 35.6696667° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 19:27:18 / July 4, 2019 @ 7:27 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and one, in the last 10 days one hundred and one, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 13 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.48° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6696667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Searles Valley, 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 19:27:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 19:31:12 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 121 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 ci38443895 Id of event.
Event Code 38443895 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443895, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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