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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.661499S, -117.425499WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:16:27 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/10/20 / 2020-10-03 20:16:27 / October 3, 2020 @ 8:16 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.05 km (4 miles). Event id: ci39651712. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39651712. Exact location of earthquake, -117.425499° West, 35.661499° North, depth 7.05 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 12 km S of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.425499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.661499° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S 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 2020-10-03 20:16:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-03 20:20:00 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 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 156 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 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 ci39651712 Id of event.
Event Code 39651712 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39651712, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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