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Light earthquake, 4.52 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7643318S, -117.5773315WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.52 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5773315 West, latitude 35.7643318 North, depth = 6.9 km. The temblor was detected at 21:38:15 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.9 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 05:38:15 / July 7, 2019 @ 5:38 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38472279. Unique identifier: ci38472279.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.52 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5773315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7643318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W 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 2019-07-07 05:38:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 05:44:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.928 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 318 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 ci38472279 Id of event.
Event Code 38472279 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38472279, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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