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Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag has occurred near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1796684S, -117.8451691WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.8451691° West, latitude 36.1796684° North, depth = 1.16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/17 / 2017-05-25 15:22:53 / May 25, 2017 @ 3:22 pm. Id of earthquake: ci37654463. Event ids that are associated: nc72806451, ci37654463. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.16 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:22:53 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.35 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8451691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1796684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2017-05-25 15:22:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-25 15:31:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 173 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 ,nc,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 ci37654463 Id of event.
Event Code 37654463 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72806451,ci37654463, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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