Minor earthquake: M3.31 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.16 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci38584607. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38584607. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4373322 West, latitude 35.6194992 North, depth = 6.16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 00:53:16 / July 17, 2019 @ 12:53 am. The temblor was detected at 16:53:16 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 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 thirteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 17 km S of Searles Valley, CA.

CA California City Fort Irwin Ridgecrest Searles Valley United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4373322° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6194992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km S 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	2019-07-17 00:53:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-17 00:55:24	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	169	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03866	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	36	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	ci38584607	Id of event.
Event Code	38584607	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38584607,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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