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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7436667S, -117.551WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.551° West, latitude 35.7436667° North, depth = 6.78 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.78 km (4 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:13:37 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38455103. Id of event: ci38455103. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 21:13:37 / July 5, 2019 @ 9:13 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km W of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.551° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7436667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W 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 2019-07-05 21:13:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 21:17:34 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 122 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08126 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 57 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 ci38455103 Id of event.
Event Code 38455103 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38455103, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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