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Light earthquake, 4.37 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1488342S, -117.8700027WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.37 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Wednesday. The 4.37-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:39 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38525215. Id of event: ci38525215. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8700027 West, latitude 36.1488342 North, depth = 1.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 00:15:39 / July 11, 2019 @ 12:15 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.09 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 14 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8700027° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1488342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNE of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-11 00:15:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 00:21:58 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 5.66 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed 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 294 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38525215 Id of event.
Event Code 38525215 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38525215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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