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Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 25 km N of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.9889984S, -117.4113312WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 06:38:46 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.4113312° West, latitude 35.9889984° North, depth = 0.64 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.64 km (0 miles). Global time and date of event 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 14:38:46 / July 16, 2019 @ 2:38 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38581455. Id of event: ci38581455.

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km N of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4113312° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9889984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km N 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 2019-07-16 14:38:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 14:41:01 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 176 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 ci38581455 Id of event.
Event Code 38581455 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38581455, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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