Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Ridgecrest in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.47 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/09/19 / 2019-09-03 02:32:14 / September 3, 2019 @ 2:32 am. The temblor was detected at 18:32:14 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci39037488. Event ids that are associated: ci39037488. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5213318 West, latitude 35.6710014 North, depth = 9.47 km.

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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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. 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: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5213318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6710014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-03 02:32:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-03 02:38:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	158	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09711	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	ci39037488	Id of event.
Event Code	39037488	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39037488,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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