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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:01:40 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 02:01:40 / July 5, 2019 @ 2:01 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38446639. Unique identifier: ci38446639. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.22 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6149979 West, latitude 35.7734985 North, depth = 0.22 km.

Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.21 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.6149979° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7734985° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNE 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	2019-07-05 02:01:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-05 02:04:01	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1622	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	ci38446639	Id of event.
Event Code	38446639	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38446639,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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