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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6486667S, -117.4415WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 17:20:16 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.58 km (7 miles). Event id: ci38645295. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38645295. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 01:20:16 / July 26, 2019 @ 1:20 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4415 West, latitude 35.6486667 North, depth = 10.58 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seventy-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6486667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.58 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 2019-07-26 01:20:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-26 01:24:09 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 127 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02191 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 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 ci38645295 Id of event.
Event Code 38645295 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38645295, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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