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Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 9 km E of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.6236649S, -117.5713348WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38603871. Unique identifier: ci38603871. Exact location, longitude -117.5713348° West, latitude 35.6236649° North, depth = 7.58 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 12:58:58 / July 19, 2019 @ 12:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:58:58 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.58 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km E of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5713348° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6236649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E of Ridgecrest, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-19 12:58:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 13:01:08 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 154 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09636 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 54 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 ci38603871 Id of event.
Event Code 38603871 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38603871, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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