Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The temblor was reported at 03:52:54 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5226669 West, latitude 35.6629982 North, depth = 8.99 km. Global time and date of event 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 11:52:54 / March 20, 2020 @ 11:52 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.99 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39108583. Id of event: ci39108583.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5226669° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6629982° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2020-03-20 11:52:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-20 11:57:58	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	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5	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	191	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1142	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	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	ci39108583	Id of event.
Event Code	39108583	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39108583,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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