Minor earthquake: M3.54 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6281667 West, latitude 35.7801667 North, depth = 5.74 km. The 3.54-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:40:32 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.74 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci37219860. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219860. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:40:32 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:40 am.

Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and eighty-nine, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days nine hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.54 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.6281667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7801667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNE 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 03:40:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-01 22:20:44	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	193	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	0.04337	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	ci37219860	Id of event.
Event Code	37219860	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37219860,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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