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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Trona in CA


Earthquake location 35.5813332S, -117.3578339WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Trona in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.3578339 West, latitude 35.5813332 North, depth = 3.36 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 23:11:51 / July 13, 2019 @ 11:11 pm. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:11:51 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38561879. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38561879. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.36 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Fort Irwin, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days seven hundred and five, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 S of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.3578339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5813332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S 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 2019-07-13 23:11:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 23:14:08 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 128 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05652 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 33 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 ci38561879 Id of event.
Event Code 38561879 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38561879, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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