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Minor earthquake 3.52 mag, 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.5704994S, -117.5198364WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5198364 West, latitude 35.5704994 North, depth = 8.9 km. The temblor was reported at 02:09:18 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:09:18 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:09 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38461447. Id of event: ci38461447.

Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four hundred and five, in the last 10 days five hundred and four, in the past 30 days five hundred and five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.52 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5198364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5704994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE 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 10:09:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:17:34 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 5.19 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 191 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04962 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 38 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 ci38461447 Id of event.
Event Code 38461447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461447, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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