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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6233333S, -117.5835WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.06 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:57:35 / 2:57 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 22:57:35 / July 8, 2019 @ 10:57 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5835 West, latitude 35.6233333 North, depth = 11.06 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38492591. Id of event: ci38492591.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 8 km (5 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km E of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6233333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km E 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 22:57:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 02:15:09 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 148 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38492591 Id of event.
Event Code 38492591 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38492591, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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