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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 4 km E of Coso Junction, CA


Earthquake location 36.0385S, -117.9048333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. The temblor was detected at 05:25:35 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.9048333° West, 36.0385° North, depth 27.72 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38487215. Id of event: ci38487215. Global time and date of event 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 13:25:35 / July 8, 2019 @ 1:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.72 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km E of Coso Junction, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9048333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-08 13:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 13:29:27 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 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 131 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 ci38487215 Id of event.
Event Code 38487215 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38487215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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