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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Johannesburg in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Johannesburg in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.29 km (1 miles). Event id: ci38591911. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38591911. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 22:41:15 / July 17, 2019 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:41:15 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.8460007 West, latitude 35.3704987 North, depth = 2.29 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Bear Valley Springs, Golden Hills. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Golden Hills (c. 8 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km W of Johannesburg, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8460007° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3704987° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km W of Johannesburg, 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 22:41:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-17 22:43:24	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	142	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	ci38591911	Id of event.
Event Code	38591911	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38591911,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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