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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.5525S, -117.4301667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 13:39:52 / July 6, 2019 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.58 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38463887. Unique identifier: ci38463887. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:39:52 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4301667 West, latitude 35.5525 North, depth = 2.58 km.

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eighty-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4301667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 13:39:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 23:14:31 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 4.8 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 128 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 ci38463887 Id of event.
Event Code 38463887 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38463887, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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