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Minor earthquake, 3.77 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6596667S, -117.4853333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4853333° West, 35.6596667° North, depth 5.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37219644. Id of event: ci37219644. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:31:24 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:31 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.2 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:31:24 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.77 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4853333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6596667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 03:31:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 18:25:05 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 4.235 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 219 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 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 ci37219644 Id of event.
Event Code 37219644 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219644, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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