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Minor earthquake 3.61 mag, 11 km S of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6696663S, -117.4143295WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 07:43:36 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 15:43:36 / July 15, 2019 @ 3:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38574407. Id of event: ci38574407. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.16 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4143295 West, latitude 35.6696663 North, depth = 6.16 km.

The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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 thirteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km S of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4143295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6696663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S 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 2019-07-15 15:43:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 15:48:59 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 5.4 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 200 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09169 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 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38574407 Id of event.
Event Code 38574407 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38574407, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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