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Minor earthquake: M3.56 quake has struck near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1126671S, -117.8553314WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. The temblor was picked up at 18:05:02 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/19 / 2019-09-08 02:05:02 / September 8, 2019 @ 2:05 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.9 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38818071. Id of event: ci38818071. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8553314° West, 36.1126671° North, depth 2.9 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, 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. 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: 11 km NE of Coso Junction, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8553314° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1126671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NE of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-08 02:05:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-08 02:07:24 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 195 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004918 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 53 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 ci38818071 Id of event.
Event Code 38818071 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38818071, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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