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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.0760002S, -117.8513336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Friday. Unique identifier: ci38602799. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38602799. The temblor was detected at 01:26:43 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 09:26:43 / July 19, 2019 @ 9:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.08 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8513336 West, latitude 36.0760002 North, depth = 1.08 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety-five 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 9 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8513336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0760002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ENE of Coso Junction, 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 09:26:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 09:29:07 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 141 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 ci38602799 Id of event.
Event Code 38602799 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38602799, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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