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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Olancha in CA

Posted by admin on July 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2028351S, -117.8978348WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Olancha in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.12 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.8978348° West, latitude 36.2028351° North, depth = 0.12 km. Global time and date of event 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 17:05:44 / July 16, 2019 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38582311. Id of event: ci38582311. The temblor was reported at 09:05:44 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km SE of Olancha, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8978348° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2028351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Olancha, 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 17:05:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 17:08:12 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 129 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 ci38582311 Id of event.
Event Code 38582311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38582311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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