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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on September 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7579994S, -117.5771637WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 12:33:34 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/19 / 2019-09-20 20:33:34 / September 20, 2019 @ 8:33 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.44 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.5771637° West, latitude 35.7579994° North, depth = 6.44 km. Event id: ci38848871. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38848871.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5771637° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7579994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W 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 2019-09-20 20:33:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-20 20:36:21 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 ci38848871 Id of event.
Event Code 38848871 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38848871, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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