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Minor earthquake, 3.81 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6888333S, -117.515WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. Global time and date of event 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 15:32:44 / July 11, 2019 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:32:44 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.14 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ci38534247. Event ids that are associated: ci38534247. Exact location, longitude -117.515° West, latitude 35.6888333° North, depth = 7.14 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 13 km SW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6888333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2019-07-11 15:32:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 15:38:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.42 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 224 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07802 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38534247 Id of event.
Event Code 38534247 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38534247, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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