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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.752S, -117.5795WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. Event id: ci38459175. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38459175. The temblor was detected at 22:50:12 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.81 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:50:12 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:50 am. Exact location, longitude -117.5795° West, latitude 35.752° North, depth = 12.81 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and twenty-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days six hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.752° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W 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 06:50:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:09:34 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 122 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 ci38459175 Id of event.
Event Code 38459175 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38459175, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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