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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.8301659S, -117.6648331WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6648331 West, latitude 35.8301659 North, depth = 4.28 km. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:13:25 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38481167. Unique identifier: ci38481167. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.28 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 00:13:25 / July 8, 2019 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT.

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

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km N of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6648331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8301659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km N 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 2019-07-08 00:13:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 00:15:43 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 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 139 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 0.05657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 ci38481167 Id of event.
Event Code 38481167 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38481167, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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