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Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6790009S, -117.5121689WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.91 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38488719. Unique identifier: ci38488719. The temblor was detected at 08:04:28 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5121689 West, latitude 35.6790009 North, depth = 1.91 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 16:04:28 / July 8, 2019 @ 4:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5121689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6790009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW 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 2019-07-08 16:04:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 16:10:13 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 5.63 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 automatic 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 226 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci38488719 Id of event.
Event Code 38488719 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38488719, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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