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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5573349S, -117.5688324WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.5688324° West, latitude 35.5573349° North, depth = 3.6 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:11:41 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38548303. Unique identifier: ci38548303. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.6 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 13:11:41 / July 12, 2019 @ 1:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Golden Hills, Rosamond, Tehachapi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days seven hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 12 km SE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5688324° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5573349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SE 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 2019-07-12 13:11:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-12 13:14:47 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 5.812 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 340 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 ci38548303 Id of event.
Event Code 38548303 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38548303, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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