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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Searles Valley in California


Earthquake location 35.702S, -117.5361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:01:22 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004a1k. Unique identifier: us70004a1k. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5361° West, 35.702° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:01:22 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 13 km WSW of Searles Valley, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Searles Valley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 18:01:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-01 16:03:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 29 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.512 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 206 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70004a1k Id of event.
Event Code 70004a1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004a1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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