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Minor earthquake: M3.94 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6623344S, -117.5248337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5248337° West, 35.6623344° North, depth 1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 19:56:00 / July 4, 2019 @ 7:56 pm. The 3.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:56:00 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38444103. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38444103, nn00689349.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5248337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6623344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 19:56:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-04 19:59:27 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 239 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09127 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 45 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 ci38444103 Id of event.
Event Code 38444103 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38444103,nn00689349, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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