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Minor earthquake: M2.95 quake has struck near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1030006S, -117.8248367WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8248367° West, 36.1030006° North, depth 1.31 km. Global time and date of event 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 15:57:04 / July 16, 2019 @ 3:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:57:04 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38581959. Id of event: ci38581959. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.31 km (1 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 13 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8248367° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1030006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of Coso Junction, 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 15:57:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 15:59:12 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 134 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 ci38581959 Id of event.
Event Code 38581959 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38581959, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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