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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on July 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8269997S, -117.6443329WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:31:06 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.96 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci38473223. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38473223. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6443329 West, latitude 35.8269997 North, depth = 6.96 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 07:31:06 / July 7, 2019 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and ninety-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 23 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6443329° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8269997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2019-07-07 07:31:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 07:34:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 142 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 ci38473223 Id of event.
Event Code 38473223 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38473223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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