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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near California City in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from California City in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.9154968 West, latitude 35.3354988 North, depth = 5.8 km. Unique identifier: ci38565815. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38565815. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:29:33 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 12:29:33 / July 14, 2019 @ 12:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lancaster, Alta Sierra, Bear Valley Springs (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days seven hundred and ten, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.9154968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3354988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km NNE of California City, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-14 12:29:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-14 12:32:04	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	138	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08867	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	ci38565815	Id of event.
Event Code	38565815	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38565815,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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