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Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 23 km S of Trona, CA


Earthquake location 35.5573349S, -117.3866653WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Trona in CA on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.3866653 West, latitude 35.5573349 North, depth = -0.83 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 08:38:27 / July 7, 2019 @ 8:38 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.83 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ci38473831. Event ids that are associated: ci38473831. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:38:27 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow, California City, Fort Irwin (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fifty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 23 km S of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.3866653° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5573349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km S of Trona, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-07 08:38:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 08:44:59 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 0 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 154 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03701 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 ci38473831 Id of event.
Event Code 38473831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38473831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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