Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Johannesburg in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Johannesburg in CA. Exact location of event, depth 1.55 km, -117.8461685° West, 35.3689995° North. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:39:55 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.55 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 06:39:55 / July 15, 2019 @ 6:39 am. Id of earthquake: ci38571423. Event ids that are associated: ci38571423.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Golden Hills (c. 8 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Bear Valley Springs, Golden Hills (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km W of Johannesburg, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8461685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3689995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km W of Johannesburg, 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 06:39:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-15 06:42:10	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	146	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1014	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	31	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	ci38571423	Id of event.
Event Code	38571423	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38571423,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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