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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6790009S, -117.5179977WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was reported at 07:50:49 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7.38 km, -117.5179977° West, 35.6790009° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.38 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 15:50:49 / July 7, 2019 @ 3:50 pm. Unique identifier: ci38477335. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38477335.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5179977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6790009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW 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 2019-07-07 15:50:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 15:53:00 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 133 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1029 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 45 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 ci38477335 Id of event.
Event Code 38477335 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38477335, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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