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Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.7036667S, -117.5063333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 19:45:54 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 11.11 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: ci37220276. Event ids that are associated: ci37220276. Exact location, longitude -117.5063333° West, latitude 35.7036667° North, depth = 11.11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:45:54 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:45 am.

Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and three, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.52 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5063333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7036667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW 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 03:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 20:06:35 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 3.392 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 191 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37220276 Id of event.
Event Code 37220276 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37220276, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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