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Minor earthquake 3.46 mag, 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6860008S, -117.4801636WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 07:39:13 / July 5, 2019 @ 7:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.49 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:39:13 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38448863, us70004at8. Id of event: ci38448863. Exact location of event, depth 9.49 km, -117.4801636° West, 35.6860008° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-six, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4801636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6860008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW 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 2019-07-05 07:39:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 07:47:50 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 5.5 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 reviewed 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 184 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ci38448863 Id of event.
Event Code 38448863 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38448863,us70004at8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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