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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6706657S, -117.5128326WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Event id: ci38474463. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38474463. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 09:46:49 / July 7, 2019 @ 9:46 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.42 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:46:49 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5128326 West, latitude 35.6706657 North, depth = 3.42 km.

Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close 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 California City, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fifty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5128326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6706657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SW 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 2019-07-07 09:46:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 09:48:57 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 135 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 ci38474463 Id of event.
Event Code 38474463 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38474463, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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