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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

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Earthquake location 35.6098328S, -117.6033325WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:15:04 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38443447. Event ids that are associated: ci38443447. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6033325° West, 35.6098328° North, depth 1.77 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.77 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:15:04 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km E of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6033325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6098328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km E 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 18:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 18:17:27 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 138 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 0.1174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 ci38443447 Id of event.
Event Code 38443447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443447, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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