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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag was detected near Trona in CA


Earthquake location 35.9608345S, -117.2730026WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Trona in CA. The temblor was reported at 09:09:01 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38466023, us70004d0h. Id of event: ci38466023. Exact location of event, depth 2.87 km, -117.2730026° West, 35.9608345° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 17:09:01 / July 6, 2019 @ 5:09 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.87 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km NNE of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2730026° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9608345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNE of Trona, 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 17:09:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 22:16:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 165 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07024 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 45 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 ci38466023 Id of event.
Event Code 38466023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38466023,us70004d0h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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