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Light earthquake, 4.16 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6401672S, -117.4468307WA light earthquake magnitude 4.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.31 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38457983, us70004bs5. Id of event: ci38457983. The 4.16-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:40:16 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:40:16 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4468307 West, latitude 35.6401672 North, depth = 2.31 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow, Fort Irwin, California City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ninety, in the last 10 days four hundred and seventy-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4468307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6401672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW 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 2019-07-06 04:40:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:52:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.86 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 266 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 ci38457983 Id of event.
Event Code 38457983 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457983,us70004bs5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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