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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7693329S, -117.4974976WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38460791. Event ids that are associated: ci38460791. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:12:39 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4974976° West, 35.7693329° North, depth 6.86 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:12:39 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.86 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eighty-four, 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 and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km W of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4974976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7693329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km W 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 09:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 00:54:03 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 ci38460791 Id of event.
Event Code 38460791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38460791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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