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Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag strikes near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.0436668S, -117.7201691WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38531503. Unique identifier: ci38531503. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 10:27:24 / July 11, 2019 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:27:24 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.23 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.23 km, -117.7201691° West, 36.0436668° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km E of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7201691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0436668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E of Coso Junction, 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 10:27:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 10:29:48 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 155 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09432 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 29 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 ci38531503 Id of event.
Event Code 38531503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38531503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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