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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.5346667S, -117.5678333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Friday. Exact location, longitude -117.5678333° West, latitude 35.5346667° North, depth = 6.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:22:26 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:22:26 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:22 am. Unique identifier: ci37219492. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219492.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fourty-three, in the last 10 days eight hundred and thirty-four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 14 km SE of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5678333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5346667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SE 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 03:22:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-29 21:10:49 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 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 138 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1005 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 234 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mh The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37219492 Id of event.
Event Code 37219492 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219492, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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