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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.5695S, -117.5216675WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The temblor was picked up at 21:40:58 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.74 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.5216675° West, latitude 35.5695° North, depth = 9.74 km. Global time and date of event 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 21:40:58 / July 10, 2019 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ci38523567. Event ids that are associated: ci38523567.

Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days six hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5216675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2019-07-10 21:40:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 21:43:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 137 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 ci38523567 Id of event.
Event Code 38523567 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38523567, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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