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Minor earthquake: M3.39 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.7700005S, -117.6125031WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6125031 West, latitude 35.7700005 North, depth = 2.34 km. Event id: ci38448031. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38448031. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.34 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:25 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 05:18:25 / July 5, 2019 @ 5:18 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. 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 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6125031° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7700005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE 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 05:18:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 05:20:31 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 177 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1297 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 54 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 ci38448031 Id of event.
Event Code 38448031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38448031, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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