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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.0781667S, -117.8478333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37423493. Id of event: ci37423493. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.4 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 11:50:55 / August 15, 2019 @ 11:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8478333° West, 36.0781667° North, depth 2.4 km. The temblor was detected at 03:50:55 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 10 km ENE of Coso Junction, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8478333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0781667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-15 11:50:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-15 14:33:31 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 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 125 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 ci37423493 Id of event.
Event Code 37423493 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37423493, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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