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Minor earthquake: M3.21 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6860008S, -117.5531693WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. Event id: ci38461631. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38461631. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.61 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.5531693° West, latitude 35.6860008° North, depth = 8.61 km. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:27:59 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:27:59 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:27 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5531693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6860008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE 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 2019-07-06 10:27:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:43:37 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 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 159 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1239 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 58 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 ci38461631 Id of event.
Event Code 38461631 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461631, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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