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Minor earthquake 3.74 mag, 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6493333S, -117.4578333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. The temblor was reported at 21:26:52 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38458391. Event ids that are associated: ci38458391, us70004bue. Exact location of event, depth 2.37 km, -117.4578333° West, 35.6493333° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 05:26:52 / July 6, 2019 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.37 km (1 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, 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 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ninety-eight, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days five hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.74 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4578333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6493333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2019-07-06 05:26:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:56:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 215 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38458391 Id of event.
Event Code 38458391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38458391,us70004bue, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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