Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.5786667S, -117.5808334WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:24:17 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:24:17 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:24 am. Id of earthquake: ci38457879. Event ids that are associated: ci38457879. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5808334 West, latitude 35.5786667 North, depth = -0.9 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.9 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and thirty-six, 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 has occurred nearby.

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5808334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5786667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ESE 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 04:24:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:20:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 174 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1289 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 ci38457879 Id of event.
Event Code 38457879 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457879, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply