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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.7843323S, -117.6146698WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6146698 West, latitude 35.7843323 North, depth = 7.6 km. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:18:42 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.6 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 12:18:42 / August 2, 2019 @ 12:18 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38683903. Id of event: ci38683903.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 19 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6146698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7843323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2019-08-02 12:18:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 12:21:07 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 automatic 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 194 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 ci38683903 Id of event.
Event Code 38683903 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38683903, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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