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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5871667S, -117.6165WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:13:07 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004bqm, ci38457815. Unique identifier: ci38457815. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6165 West, latitude 35.5871667 North, depth = 7.94 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:13:07 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.94 km (5 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 6 km (4 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow Heights, Rosamond, Barstow (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and seventy-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6165° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5871667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE 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 2019-07-06 04:13:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.38 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 355 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 ,us,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.12 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 ci38457815 Id of event.
Event Code 38457815 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004bqm,ci38457815, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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