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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on July 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.618S, -117.4376678WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:36:30 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.4376678° West, latitude 35.618° North, depth = 8.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38463159. Id of event: ci38463159. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 12:36:30 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 21 km (13 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 seventy-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km S of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4376678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km S 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 2019-07-06 12:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 00:44:11 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 136 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03725 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 40 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 ci38463159 Id of event.
Event Code 38463159 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38463159, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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