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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.8203316S, -117.6618347WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.84 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.6618347° West, latitude 35.8203316° North, depth = 3.84 km. The 3.45-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:48:11 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 15:48:11 / July 7, 2019 @ 3:48 pm. Unique identifier: ci38477303. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38477303.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km N of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6618347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8203316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km N 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 15:48:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 15:52:57 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 4.98 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 183 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08457 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 ci38477303 Id of event.
Event Code 38477303 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38477303, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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