Minor earthquake: M3.28 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.5373306° West, latitude 35.6838341° North, depth = 8.2 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/24 / 2024-05-19 17:23:35 / May 19, 2024 @ 5:23 pm. Unique identifier: ci40592599. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40592599. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.2 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:23:35 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

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

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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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5373306° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6838341° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ENE 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	2024-05-19 17:23:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-19 17:25:41	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	166	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	0.09438	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	48	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	ci40592599	Id of event.
Event Code	40592599	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40592599,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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