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Light earthquake, 4.18 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.706501S, -117.5250015WA light earthquake magnitude 4.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:40:18 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:40 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443231. Unique identifier: ci38443231. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 2.13 km, -117.5250015° West, 35.706501° North. The 4.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:18 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.13 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5250015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.706501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW of Searles Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 17:40:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 17:57:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.74 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 269 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1302 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci38443231 Id of event.
Event Code 38443231 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443231, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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