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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in California

Posted by admin on July 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7472S, -117.5805WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ridgecrest in California. Exact location of event, depth 4.9 km, -117.5805° West, 35.7472° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004bkq. Id of event: us70004bkq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 00:51:25 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:51 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:51:25 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 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 hundred and nine, in the last 10 days seven hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days eight hundred and ten 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. 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: 16 km NNE of Ridgecrest, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNE of Ridgecrest, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-06 00:51:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 02:00:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.291 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 reviewed 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 223 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us70004bkq Id of event.
Event Code 70004bkq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004bkq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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