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Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on October 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.667S, -117.5115WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38924447. Event ids that are associated: ci38924447. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:14 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/10/19 / 2019-10-31 08:49:14 / October 31, 2019 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5115 West, latitude 35.667 North, depth = 8.5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.5 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SW 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 2019-10-31 08:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 08:53:17 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 125 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 ci38924447 Id of event.
Event Code 38924447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38924447, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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