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Minor earthquake, 3.87 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.152832S, -117.87883WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.87 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -117.87883° West, latitude 36.152832° North, depth = 0.14 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 15:32:52 / July 11, 2019 @ 3:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:32:52 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.14 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38534255. Unique identifier: ci38534255.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.87883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.152832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.14 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 15:32:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 15:38:37 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 5.4 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 231 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 ci38534255 Id of event.
Event Code 38534255 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38534255, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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