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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1191673S, -117.8598328WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 00:20:02 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 08:20:02 / July 8, 2019 @ 8:20 am. Id of earthquake: ci38484631. Event ids that are associated: ci38484631. Exact location of event, depth 2.88 km, -117.8598328° West, 36.1191673° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.88 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 58 km (36 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km NE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8598328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1191673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE 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 08:20:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 08:25:53 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 5.05 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 234 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004327 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 mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38484631 Id of event.
Event Code 38484631 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38484631, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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