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Minor earthquake 3.54 mag, 14 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA


Earthquake location 36.1580009S, -117.8755035WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8755035 West, latitude 36.1580009 North, depth = 2.62 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:31:58 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.62 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: ci38484311. Event ids that are associated: ci38484311. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 07:31:58 / July 8, 2019 @ 7:31 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 14 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8755035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1580009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNE of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-08 07:31:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 07:35:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.71 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 193 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 0.04366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 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 ci38484311 Id of event.
Event Code 38484311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38484311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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