Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.15 km (-0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 19:01:10 / July 4, 2019 @ 7:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5621643 West, latitude 35.7096672 North, depth = -0.15 km. The temblor was detected at 11:01:10 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38443759. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38443759.

Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 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. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 14 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5621643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7096672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.15 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 19:01:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-04 19:03:16	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	137	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1474	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	72	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	ci38443759	Id of event.
Event Code	38443759	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38443759,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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