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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 8 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA


Earthquake location 36.0811667S, -117.8665WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 23:44:58 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 07:44:58 / July 18, 2019 @ 7:44 am. Exact location of event, depth 1.3 km, -117.8665° West, 36.0811667° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.3 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38594839. Id of event: ci38594839.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 8 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0811667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 2019-07-18 07:44:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 07:48:51 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 121 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci38594839 Id of event.
Event Code 38594839 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38594839, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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