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Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 12 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6713333S, -117.4720001WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.4720001° West, latitude 35.6713333° North, depth = 2.85 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38460727, us70004c7t. Id of event: ci38460727. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.85 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:06:21 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:06:21 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 12 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 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4720001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6713333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 09:06:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 19:34:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 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 176 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38460727 Id of event.
Event Code 38460727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38460727,us70004c7t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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