Light earthquake, 4.37 mag has occurred near Searles Valley in CA

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.37 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.74 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:33:09 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:33 am. Id of earthquake: ci37219692. Event ids that are associated: ci37219692. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5051667 West, latitude 35.7148333 North, depth = 1.74 km. The temblor was detected at 19:33:09 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Fort Irwin, California City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 seventy, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.37 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5051667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7148333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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 03:33:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-31 19:58:35	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	5.526	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	294	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1256	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	80	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	ci37219692	Id of event.
Event Code	37219692	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37219692,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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