Light earthquake, 4.24 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 2.23 km, -117.4465° West, 35.6566667° North. The 4.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:29:10 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.23 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:29:10 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:29 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: ci37219596. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219596.

Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow, Fort Irwin, California City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fifty-eight, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Barstow CA California City Fort Irwin Ridgecrest Searles Valley United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4465° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6566667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SSW 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	2019-07-06 03:29:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-30 21:34:20	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	277	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07117	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	ci37219596	Id of event.
Event Code	37219596	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37219596,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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