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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6785S, -117.4525WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4525 West, latitude 35.6785 North, depth = 15.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37218996. Unique identifier: ci37218996. The temblor was reported at 09:37:25 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:37:25 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:37 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.76 km (10 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 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 that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 ninety-one, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 11 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4525° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW 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 17:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 20:21:16 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 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 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mh The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37218996 Id of event.
Event Code 37218996 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37218996, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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