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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6623333S, -117.5245WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Id of earthquake: ci37420973. Event ids that are associated: ci37420973. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 23:34:00 / July 4, 2019 @ 11:34 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5245 West, latitude 35.6623333 North, depth = 2.61 km. The temblor was reported at 15:34:00 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.61 km (2 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and seventy-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6623333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2019-07-04 23:34:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 17:42:21 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 4.507 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 224 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci37420973 Id of event.
Event Code 37420973 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37420973, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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