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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 15 km W of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.7856667S, -117.5736667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. Id of earthquake: ci38556047. Event ids that are associated: ci38556047. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5736667° West, 35.7856667° North, depth 10.97 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 06:24:44 / July 13, 2019 @ 6:24 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.97 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:24:44 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 15 km W of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5736667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7856667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W 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 2019-07-13 06:24:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 06:31:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 131 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38556047 Id of event.
Event Code 38556047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38556047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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