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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in California

Posted by admin on July 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6578S, -117.5543WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in California on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5543° West, 35.6578° North, depth 1.27 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:43:29 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.27 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:43:29 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70004a0z. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38443247, us70004a0z.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and seventy-three, in the last 10 days seven hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 11 km ENE of Ridgecrest, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6578° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ENE of Ridgecrest, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-04 17:43:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 20:55:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.509 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 reviewed 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 202 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us70004a0z Id of event.
Event Code 70004a0z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38443247,us70004a0z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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