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Minor earthquake 3.41 mag, 19 km SSW of Trona, CA


Earthquake location 35.5955009S, -117.4223328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Trona in CA on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 03:02:20 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39004464. Id of event: ci39004464. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 11:02:20 / August 24, 2019 @ 11:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4223328 West, latitude 35.5955009 North, depth = 0.72 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.72 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

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

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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: 19 km SSW of Trona, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.41 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4223328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5955009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSW 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 2019-08-24 11:02:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-24 11:04:33 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 179 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03371 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 26 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 ci39004464 Id of event.
Event Code 39004464 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39004464, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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