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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on October 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6821667S, -117.5731667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5731667 West, latitude 35.6821667 North, depth = 8.84 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 23:29:28 / October 16, 2019 @ 11:29 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.84 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39136592. Id of event: ci39136592. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:29:28 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 11 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). 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).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 12 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5731667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6821667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE 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 2019-10-16 23:29:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-16 23:35:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 123 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ci39136592 Id of event.
Event Code 39136592 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39136592, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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