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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5745S, -117.5125WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:39:26 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:39 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38461047. Unique identifier: ci38461047. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:39:26 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.5125° West, latitude 35.5745° North, depth = 6.67 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and eleven, 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-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5125° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 09:39:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 02:02:19 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 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 123 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 ci38461047 Id of event.
Event Code 38461047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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