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Minor earthquake 3.19 mag, 21 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.8211667S, -117.6305WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 02:59:24 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.24 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.6305° West, 35.8211667° North, depth 11.24 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:59:24 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:59 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00691534, ci38461991. Id of event: ci38461991.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 seventy-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 21 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6305° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8211667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Searles Valley, 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 10:59:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 15:56:30 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 157 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 ,nn,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 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 ci38461991 Id of event.
Event Code 38461991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00691534,ci38461991, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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