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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 15 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6458333S, -117.4831667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:45:57 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:45 am. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4831667° West, 35.6458333° North, depth 2.61 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.61 km (2 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:45:57 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38459111. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38459111.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4831667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6458333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW of Searles Valley, 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 06:45:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 22:42:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 ci38459111 Id of event.
Event Code 38459111 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38459111, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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