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Light earthquake, 4.48 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5685S, -117.5165WA light earthquake magnitude 4.48 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.82 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.48-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:23:34 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:23:34 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:23 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5165 West, latitude 35.5685 North, depth = 10.82 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37219476. Id of event: ci37219476.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Barstow Heights, Barstow. Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fourty-one, in the last 10 days eight hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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 ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.48 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5165° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2019-07-06 03:23:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-29 20:20:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.614 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 309 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04777 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 ci37219476 Id of event.
Event Code 37219476 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219476, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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