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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on August 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6831667S, -117.49WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38995952. Unique identifier: ci38995952. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:04:28 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.75 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.49 West, latitude 35.6831667 North, depth = 6.75 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 16:04:28 / August 22, 2019 @ 4:04 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 12 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.49° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6831667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW 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 2019-08-22 16:04:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-22 16:08:27 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 125 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05692 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 48 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 ci38995952 Id of event.
Event Code 38995952 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38995952, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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