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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 27 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA


Earthquake location 36.1223333S, -117.6681667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38591624. Id of event: ci38591624. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6681667 West, latitude 36.1223333 North, depth = 2.82 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:23:27 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/19 / 2019-05-13 03:23:27 / May 13, 2019 @ 3:23 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 27 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6681667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1223333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ENE 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 2019-05-13 03:23:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-13 03:27:10 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 129 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07002 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 ci38591624 Id of event.
Event Code 38591624 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38591624, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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