Minor earthquake: M3.81 quake has struck near Trona in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Trona in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.3106689 West, latitude 35.5540009 North, depth = 7.36 km. The temblor was detected at 09:53:47 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38489751. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38489751. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 17:53:47 / July 8, 2019 @ 5:53 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.36 km (5 miles).

The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow Heights, California City, Barstow (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 24 km SSE of Trona, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.3106689° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5540009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SSE of Trona, 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 17:53:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-08 18:00:55	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	5.11	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	224	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05263	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	ci38489751	Id of event.
Event Code	38489751	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38489751,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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