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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.623333S, -117.5794983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:39:35 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:39 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5794983° West, 35.623333° North, depth 12.18 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.18 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci38443215. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38443215. The 3.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:39:35 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-four 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km E of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5794983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.623333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E of Ridgecrest, 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 17:39:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 17:57:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.68 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 225 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 ci38443215 Id of event.
Event Code 38443215 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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