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Minor earthquake 3.19 mag, 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.6549988S, -117.526001WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 11:37:10 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 19:37:10 / July 7, 2019 @ 7:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.76 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38479143. Unique identifier: ci38479143. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.526001 West, latitude 35.6549988 North, depth = 9.76 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.526001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6549988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2019-07-07 19:37:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 19:39:17 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 157 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08587 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 61 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 ci38479143 Id of event.
Event Code 38479143 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38479143, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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