Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 15:25:40 / April 16, 2024 @ 3:25 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.893° West, latitude 36.1215° North, depth = 5.77 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.77 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:25:40 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40714072, us7000mcev. Id of event: ci40714072.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.893° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1215° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NNE 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	2024-04-16 15:25:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 15:39:10	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	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	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	162	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 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	ci40714072	Id of event.
Event Code	40714072	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40714072,us7000mcev,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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