Minor earthquake: M3.21 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.1 km, -117.5561676° West, 35.7099991° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443751. Unique identifier: ci38443751. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 19:00:09 / July 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:00:09 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.21 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5561676° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7099991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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 19:00:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-04 19:02:20	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	159	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1451	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	73	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	ci38443751	Id of event.
Event Code	38443751	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38443751,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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