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Light earthquake: M4.56 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6373329S, -117.4933319WA light earthquake magnitude 4.56 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 08:32:57 / July 6, 2019 @ 8:32 am. The temblor was detected at 00:32:57 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.45 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.4933319° West, latitude 35.6373329° North, depth = 2.45 km. Id of earthquake: ci38460311. Event ids that are associated: ci38460311, us70004c5t.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Barstow Heights, Barstow (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and sixty-seven, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-three, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-nine 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.

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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. 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: 17 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4933319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6373329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 08:32:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:56:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.08 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 325 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05671 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 mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38460311 Id of event.
Event Code 38460311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38460311,us70004c5t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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