Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.7806664S, -117.6135025WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:17:31 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6135025 West, latitude 35.7806664 North, depth = 7.73 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 08:17:31 / July 9, 2019 @ 8:17 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.73 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: ci38498615. Event ids that are associated: ci38498615.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 thirty-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6135025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7806664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.73 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 2019-07-09 08:17:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 08:22:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.64 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 197 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03734 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38498615 Id of event.
Event Code 38498615 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38498615, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply