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Minor earthquake 3.43 mag, 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA


Earthquake location 36.1171667S, -117.886WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 17:43:11 / April 16, 2024 @ 5:43 pm. Unique identifier: ci40714288. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40714288, us7000mchh. Exact location of earthquake, -117.886° West, 36.1171667° North, depth 6.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.03 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.43-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:43:11 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 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. 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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1171667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NE 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 17:43:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-23 15:00:31 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 2.7 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 184 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02522 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 42 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 ci40714288 Id of event.
Event Code 40714288 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40714288,us7000mchh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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