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Minor earthquake 3.88 mag, 14 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA


Earthquake location 35.743S, -117.5514984WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.88 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 17:36:17 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.75 km (-0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/19 / 2019-07-23 01:36:17 / July 23, 2019 @ 1:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5514984 West, latitude 35.743 North, depth = -0.75 km. Id of earthquake: ci38627095. Event ids that are associated: ci38627095.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

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

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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: 14 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5514984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW 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 2019-07-23 01:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-23 01:42:07 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 5.27 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 232 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38627095 Id of event.
Event Code 38627095 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38627095, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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