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Light earthquake, 4.36 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1165009S, -117.8856659WA light earthquake magnitude 4.36 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8856659° West, 36.1165009° North, depth 3.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.89 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38585023. Unique identifier: ci38585023. The 4.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:29:07 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 02:29:07 / July 17, 2019 @ 2:29 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8856659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1165009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE 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 2019-07-17 02:29:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 02:35:15 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 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.8 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 293 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02497 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 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38585023 Id of event.
Event Code 38585023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38585023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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