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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Searles Valley in CA

Posted by admin on July 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6326667S, -117.4345WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was detected at 18:36:31 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.4345° West, latitude 35.6326667° North, depth = 6.32 km. Global time and date of event 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 02:36:31 / July 18, 2019 @ 2:36 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.32 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38593111. Unique identifier: ci38593111.

Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 thirty, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 15 km S of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6326667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 02:36:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 02:40:29 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 123 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci38593111 Id of event.
Event Code 38593111 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38593111, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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