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Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6506653S, -117.4641647WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.76 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4641647 West, latitude 35.6506653 North, depth = 8.76 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38485391. Id of event: ci38485391. The temblor was reported at 01:57:11 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 09:57:11 / July 8, 2019 @ 9:57 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, 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 fourty-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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.57 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4641647° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6506653° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW 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 2019-07-08 09:57:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 09:59:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 196 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06405 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 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38485391 Id of event.
Event Code 38485391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38485391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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