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Minor earthquake 3.07 mag, 12 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.7021675S, -117.5913315WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5913315 West, latitude 35.7021675 North, depth = 2.88 km. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:50:43 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.88 km (2 miles). Unique identifier: ci38461183. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38461183. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:50:43 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:50 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5913315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7021675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE 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 09:50:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 00:52:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 145 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 ci38461183 Id of event.
Event Code 38461183 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461183, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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