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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.7808342S, -117.6158371WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 17:31:22 / July 6, 2019 @ 5:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6158371° West, 35.7808342° North, depth 7.33 km. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:22 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.33 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38466247. Id of event: ci38466247.

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data 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 -117.6158371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7808342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE 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 17:31:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 21:18:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 146 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 0.1243 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 42 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 ci38466247 Id of event.
Event Code 38466247 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38466247, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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