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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

Posted by admin on July 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7783318S, -117.6181641WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 23:36:57 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 07:36:57 / July 21, 2019 @ 7:36 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.72 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.6181641° West, latitude 35.7783318° North, depth = 7.72 km. Event id: ci38615791. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38615791.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days seven hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6181641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7783318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-21 07:36:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 07:39:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 140 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 ci38615791 Id of event.
Event Code 38615791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38615791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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