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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5708351S, -117.5199966WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 22:23:08 / July 7, 2019 @ 10:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.41 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5199966° West, 35.5708351° North, depth 9.41 km. Id of earthquake: ci38480391. Event ids that are associated: ci38480391. The temblor was detected at 14:23:08 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5199966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5708351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE of Ridgecrest, 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 22:23:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 22:25:16 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 121 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04964 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ci38480391 Id of event.
Event Code 38480391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38480391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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