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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6746667S, -117.5241667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 10:02:50 / July 7, 2019 @ 10:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 02:02:50 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38474647. Unique identifier: ci38474647. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5241667 West, latitude 35.6746667 North, depth = 7.92 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.92 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and sixty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and three, in the past 30 days six hundred and four and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5241667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6746667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2019-07-07 10:02:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 10:06:39 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 126 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1014 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 96 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 ci38474647 Id of event.
Event Code 38474647 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38474647, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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