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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6346664S, -117.4293365WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.34 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 00:56:14 / August 16, 2019 @ 12:56 am. Unique identifier: ci38973744. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38973744. The temblor was reported at 16:56:14 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.4293365° West, 35.6346664° North, depth 6.34 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km S of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4293365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6346664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km S 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 2019-08-16 00:56:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-16 00:58:22 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 150 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05502 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 45 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 ci38973744 Id of event.
Event Code 38973744 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38973744, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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