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Light earthquake, 4.31 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.624S, -117.4861667WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.31 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.99 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37219700. Unique identifier: ci37219700. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4861667 West, latitude 35.624 North, depth = 10.99 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:33:20 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:33 am UTC/GMT. The 4.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:33:20 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow Heights, Barstow, Fort Irwin. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and seventy-one, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 17 km E of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4861667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km E 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 03:33:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 20:21:04 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 4.419 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 286 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 ci37219700 Id of event.
Event Code 37219700 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219700, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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