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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on December 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6705017S, -117.5273361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5273361 West, latitude 35.6705017 North, depth = 8.55 km. The temblor was detected at 14:15:58 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci39232664. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39232664. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 22:15:58 / December 16, 2019 @ 10:15 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.55 km (5 miles).

The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one thousand and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5273361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6705017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2019-12-16 22:15:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 22:21:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 reviewed 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 185 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39232664 Id of event.
Event Code 39232664 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39232664, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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