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Minor earthquake, 3.85 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6660004S, -117.5718307WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:28:43 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:28 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5718307 West, latitude 35.6660004 North, depth = 4.24 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.24 km (3 miles). The 3.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:28:43 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38443543. Event ids that are associated: ci38443543.

Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5718307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6660004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ENE 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 18:28:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 18:30:54 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 228 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 ci38443543 Id of event.
Event Code 38443543 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443543, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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