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Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.781S, -117.6155WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:48:17 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.92 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 04:48:17 / July 7, 2019 @ 4:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6155 West, latitude 35.781 North, depth = 2.92 km. Unique identifier: ci38471847. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38471847, nn00692467.

Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and thirteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 19 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6155° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE 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 04:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 05:01:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 129 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 ci38471847 Id of event.
Event Code 38471847 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38471847,nn00692467, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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