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Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 13 km SW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6915016S, -117.5130005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The 3.37-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:41:30 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 20:41:30 / July 6, 2019 @ 8:41 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5130005 West, latitude 35.6915016 North, depth = 1.73 km. Event id: ci38467815. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38467815, us70004d97. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.73 km (1 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eight, 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 have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km SW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5130005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6915016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW 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 20:41:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 03:35:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 178 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1126 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 70 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 ci38467815 Id of event.
Event Code 38467815 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38467815,us70004d97, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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