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Minor earthquake 2.99 mag, 17 km S of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.6173325S, -117.4213333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.45 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:37:33 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4213333 West, latitude 35.6173325 North, depth = 2.45 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 11:37:33 / July 11, 2019 @ 11:37 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38532095. Unique identifier: ci38532095.

Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (48 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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 S of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4213333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6173325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km S 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 2019-07-11 11:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 11:39:57 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 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 138 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1032 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 69 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 ci38532095 Id of event.
Event Code 38532095 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38532095, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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