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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Furnace Creek in CA

Posted by admin on July 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1538333S, -117.166WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Furnace Creek in CA. Unique identifier: ci38577167. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38577167. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.166 West, latitude 36.1538333 North, depth = 6.06 km. The temblor was reported at 16:26:07 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.06 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 00:26:07 / July 16, 2019 @ 12:26 am.

Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 43 km SW of Furnace Creek, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.166° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1538333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW of Furnace Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-16 00:26:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 00:30:04 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 125 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 ci38577167 Id of event.
Event Code 38577167 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38577167, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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