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Minor earthquake, 3.94 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7428322S, -117.5674973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.94 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38452095. Unique identifier: ci38452095. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 14:39:33 / July 5, 2019 @ 2:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 06:39:33 / 6:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5674973 West, latitude 35.7428322 North, depth = 2.33 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.33 km (1 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 15 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 3.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5674973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7428322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 14:39:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 14:45:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.37 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 reviewed 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 240 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07674 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 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38452095 Id of event.
Event Code 38452095 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38452095, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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