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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on October 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6409988S, -117.5481644WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The temblor was detected at 12:32:47 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci39649656. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39649656. Exact location, longitude -117.5481644° West, latitude 35.6409988° North, depth = 4.66 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/20 / 2020-10-02 12:32:47 / October 2, 2020 @ 12:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.66 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 12 km E of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5481644° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6409988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km E 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 2020-10-02 12:32:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-02 12:36:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.1 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 164 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 ci39649656 Id of event.
Event Code 39649656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39649656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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