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Minor earthquake 3.76 mag, 28 km E of Trona, CA


Earthquake location 35.7283325S, -117.0751648WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Trona in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 22:10:06 / December 5, 2018 @ 10:10 pm. Unique identifier: ci38386992. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38386992. Exact location, longitude -117.0751648° West, latitude 35.7283325° North, depth = 1.35 km. The 3.76-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:10:06 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.35 km (1 miles).

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close 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 Fort Irwin, Ridgecrest.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km E of Trona, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.76 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.0751648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7283325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km E of Trona, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-05 22:10:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-05 22:14:39 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 5.57 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 218 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38386992 Id of event.
Event Code 38386992 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38386992, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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