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Light earthquake, 4.07 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.0571671S, -117.8508301WA light earthquake magnitude 4.07 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8508301 West, latitude 36.0571671 North, depth = 0.54 km. Id of earthquake: ci38509663. Event ids that are associated: ci38509663. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.54 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:48:17 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 00:48:17 / July 10, 2019 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km E of Coso Junction, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8508301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0571671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-10 00:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 00:53:44 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 5.67 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 255 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 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 ci38509663 Id of event.
Event Code 38509663 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38509663, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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