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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag was detected near Ridgecrest in CA


Earthquake location 35.6981659S, -117.5438309WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 17:09:22 / July 21, 2019 @ 5:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 09:09:22 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.24 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5438309 West, latitude 35.6981659 North, depth = 9.24 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38618447. Unique identifier: ci38618447.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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 NE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5438309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6981659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE 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 17:09:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 17:11:29 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 147 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 ci38618447 Id of event.
Event Code 38618447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38618447, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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