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Minor earthquake 3.65 mag, 9 km E of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.6223335S, -117.5733337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.19 km (4 miles). Event id: ci38448295. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38448295. Global time and date of event 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 06:09:23 / July 5, 2019 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 6.19 km, -117.5733337° West, 35.6223335° North. The temblor was reported at 22:09:23 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.65 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5733337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6223335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.19 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 2019-07-05 06:09:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 06:15:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.45 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 206 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38448295 Id of event.
Event Code 38448295 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38448295, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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