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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1008333S, -117.5863333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Global time and date of event 17/11/24 / 2024-11-17 09:27:25 / November 17, 2024 @ 9:27 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.95 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:27:25 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40794527. Event ids that are associated: ci40794527. Exact location, longitude -117.5863333° West, latitude 36.1008333° North, depth = 0.95 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 33 km E of Coso Junction, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5863333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1008333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km E 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 2024-11-17 09:27:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-17 09:30:57 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 128 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 ci40794527 Id of event.
Event Code 40794527 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40794527, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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