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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.711S, -117.5648333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 15:25:58 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5648333° West, 35.711° North, depth 0.72 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.72 km (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38464991. Unique identifier: ci38464991. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:25:58 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and ninety-six, in the last 10 days six hundred and ten, in the past 30 days six hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 NE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5648333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE 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 2019-07-06 15:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 21:18:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 124 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1497 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 ci38464991 Id of event.
Event Code 38464991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38464991, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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