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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 25 km NNE of Trona, CA


Earthquake location 35.979S, -117.2865WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Trona in CA. Exact location of event, depth 2.96 km, -117.2865° West, 35.979° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.96 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ci38470575. Event ids that are associated: ci38470575. The temblor was reported at 18:29:28 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 02:29:28 / July 7, 2019 @ 2:29 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eighty, in the last 10 days six hundred and three, in the past 30 days six hundred and four and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventeen 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 25 km NNE of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2865° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNE of Trona, 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 02:29:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:03:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 125 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 ci38470575 Id of event.
Event Code 38470575 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38470575, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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