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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on July 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7715S, -117.6006667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:55:13 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.2 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 02:55:13 / July 6, 2019 @ 2:55 am. Exact location, longitude -117.6006667° West, latitude 35.7715° North, depth = 2.2 km. Id of earthquake: ci38457343. Event ids that are associated: ci38457343.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km W of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6006667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7715° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2019-07-06 02:55:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 02:59:01 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 121 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04422 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 54 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 ci38457343 Id of event.
Event Code 38457343 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457343, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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