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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6445007S, -117.4595032WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Unique identifier: ci39587168. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39587168. The temblor was reported at 08:20:08 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/20 / 2020-08-21 08:20:08 / August 21, 2020 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4595032 West, latitude 35.6445007 North, depth = 4.9 km.

Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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 SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4595032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6445007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW 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 2020-08-21 08:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-21 08:26:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.17 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 202 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05792 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 48 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39587168 Id of event.
Event Code 39587168 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39587168, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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