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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6843333S, -117.4761667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.18 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10.18 km, -117.4761667° West, 35.6843333° North. The temblor was reported at 02:29:10 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38572735. Id of event: ci38572735. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 10:29:10 / July 15, 2019 @ 10:29 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4761667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6843333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW 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 2019-07-15 10:29:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 10:32:53 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 3.1 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 126 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09828 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 64 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 ci38572735 Id of event.
Event Code 38572735 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38572735, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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