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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.661S, -117.519WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38447047. Unique identifier: ci38447047. Exact location of event, longitude -117.519 West, latitude 35.661 North, depth = 0.21 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 02:59:49 / July 5, 2019 @ 2:59 am. The temblor was detected at 18:59:49 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.21 km (0 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and one, in the last 10 days one hundred and one, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.519° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2019-07-05 02:59:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 03:06:02 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 2.2 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 122 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 ci38447047 Id of event.
Event Code 38447047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38447047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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