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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6586685S, -117.5353317WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Global time and date of event 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 20:37:19 / September 7, 2019 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:37:19 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38817607. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38817607. Exact location of event, depth 7.62 km, -117.5353317° West, 35.6586685° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.62 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5353317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6586685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE 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 2019-09-07 20:37:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-07 20:39:36 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 134 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09346 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 60 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 ci38817607 Id of event.
Event Code 38817607 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38817607, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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