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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.871666S, -117.5824966WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 07:18:31 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 15:18:31 / August 24, 2019 @ 3:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.37 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci39005120. Unique identifier: ci39005120. Exact location of event, depth 7.37 km, -117.5824966° West, 35.871666° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km NW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5824966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.871666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NW 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 2019-08-24 15:18:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-24 15:22:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05712 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 43 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 ci39005120 Id of event.
Event Code 39005120 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39005120, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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