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

Posted by admin on July 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7036667S, -117.5015WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.09 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5015° West, 35.7036667° North, depth 1.09 km. Id of earthquake: ci38462311. Event ids that are associated: ci38462311. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:25:15 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 11:25:15 / July 6, 2019 @ 11:25 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and thirty-one, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-eight, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7036667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2019-07-06 11:25:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 11:36:14 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1212 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 82 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 ci38462311 Id of event.
Event Code 38462311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38462311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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