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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 23 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.8276667S, -117.6426667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:04:06 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.28 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.28 km, -117.6426667° West, 35.8276667° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39362087. Unique identifier: ci39362087. Global time and date of event 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 15:04:06 / August 27, 2020 @ 3:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 23 km WNW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6426667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8276667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW 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 2020-08-27 15:04:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-27 15:08:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 128 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 ci39362087 Id of event.
Event Code 39362087 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39362087, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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