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Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.8063316S, -117.6275024WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Event id: ci38461127. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38461127. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.8 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:46:39 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 2.8 km, -117.6275024° West, 35.8063316° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:46:39 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6275024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8063316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW 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 09:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:35:39 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 172 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38461127 Id of event.
Event Code 38461127 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461127, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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