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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag strikes near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1536674S, -117.9263306WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39202447. Id of event: ci39202447. The temblor was reported at 17:46:56 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 01:46:56 / May 16, 2020 @ 1:46 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.75 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.75 km, -117.9263306° West, 36.1536674° North.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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 N of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9263306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1536674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-16 01:46:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 01:57:56 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 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.32 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 184 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06815 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 58 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 ci39202447 Id of event.
Event Code 39202447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39202447, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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