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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.713501S, -117.5315018WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.5315018° West, latitude 35.713501° North, depth = 0.89 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.89 km (1 miles). Event id: ci38443375. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38443375. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:05:41 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:05:41 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-nine, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5315018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.713501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW 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 18:05:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 18:08:07 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 126 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1387 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 60 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 ci38443375 Id of event.
Event Code 38443375 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443375, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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