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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7325S, -117.5088333WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5088333 West, latitude 35.7325 North, depth = 7.03 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:29:28 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:29 am. Unique identifier: ci37219604. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219604. The temblor was reported at 19:29:28 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.03 km (4 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fifty-nine, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5088333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2019-07-06 03:29:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-30 22:22:56 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 4.64 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 reviewed 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 284 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 ci37219604 Id of event.
Event Code 37219604 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219604, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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