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Minor earthquake 2.95 mag, 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.6866684S, -117.5414963WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38462207. Event ids that are associated: ci38462207. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 11:18:03 / July 6, 2019 @ 11:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5414963 West, latitude 35.6866684 North, depth = 1.5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.5 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:18:03 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 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 four hundred and seventy-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5414963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6866684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 11:18:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 00:45:03 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 reviewed 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 134 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 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 ci38462207 Id of event.
Event Code 38462207 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38462207, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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