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Minor earthquake 3.46 mag, 10 km SW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.7145004S, -117.4940033WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 16:16:58 / July 19, 2019 @ 4:16 pm. Event id: ci38605023. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38605023. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.8 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:16:58 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4940033 West, latitude 35.7145004 North, depth = 3.8 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

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

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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. 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: 10 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4940033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7145004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW 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 2019-07-19 16:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 16:23:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.84 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 185 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1303 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 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38605023 Id of event.
Event Code 38605023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38605023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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