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Minor earthquake 3.06 mag, 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.7470016S, -117.5784988WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:13:04 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.13 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 23:13:04 / July 4, 2019 @ 11:13 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5784988 West, latitude 35.7470016 North, depth = 2.13 km. Id of earthquake: ci38445503. Event ids that are associated: ci38445503.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-six, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5784988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7470016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 2019-07-04 23:13:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 23:15:19 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 144 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1502 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 111 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 ci38445503 Id of event.
Event Code 38445503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38445503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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