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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6188316S, -117.4228363WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38593095. Unique identifier: ci38593095. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:34:59 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4228363 West, latitude 35.6188316 North, depth = 2.94 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 02:34:59 / July 18, 2019 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.94 km (2 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4228363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6188316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km S 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 2019-07-18 02:34:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 02:37:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 122 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04549 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 46 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 ci38593095 Id of event.
Event Code 38593095 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38593095, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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