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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near Trona in CA


Earthquake location 35.5303345S, -117.3704987WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Trona in CA. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:20:22 / 6:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.3704987° West, latitude 35.5303345° North, depth = 6.93 km. Event id: ci38992192. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38992192. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.93 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 14:20:22 / August 21, 2019 @ 2:20 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barstow, California City, Fort Irwin (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 26 km S of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.3704987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5303345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km S of Trona, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-21 14:20:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-21 14:22:30 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 146 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.00725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 ci38992192 Id of event.
Event Code 38992192 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38992192, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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