Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 22 km SSE of Searles Valley, California

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Searles Valley in California on Friday. Exact location, longitude -117.3506° West, latitude 35.5688° North, depth = 12.31 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:06:14 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70004bqa. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004bqa. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:06:14 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:06 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.31 km (8 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow Heights, Barstow, California City.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and fourty-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.3506° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5688° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km SSE of Searles Valley, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-06 04:06:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-11 03:38:09	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	3.851	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	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	234	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.518	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us70004bqa	Id of event.
Event Code	70004bqa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004bqa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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