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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6348343S, -117.4356689WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 17:33:00 / September 30, 2019 @ 5:33 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4356689 West, latitude 35.6348343 North, depth = 4.66 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39101912. Unique identifier: ci39101912. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.66 km (3 miles). The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:33:00 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, 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 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4356689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6348343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.66 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 2019-09-30 17:33:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-30 17:35:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 124 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05285 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 37 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 ci39101912 Id of event.
Event Code 39101912 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39101912, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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