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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6498337S, -117.4670029WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38599935. Id of event: ci38599935. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:01:10 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.98 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 00:01:10 / July 19, 2019 @ 12:01 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4670029 West, latitude 35.6498337 North, depth = 0.98 km.

Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 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 cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days two hundred and two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4670029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6498337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW 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 2019-07-19 00:01:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 00:03:18 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 135 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06332 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 39 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 ci38599935 Id of event.
Event Code 38599935 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38599935, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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