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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag strikes near Trona in CA


Earthquake location 35.6121674S, -117.4175034WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Trona in CA. Global time and date of event 28/12/19 / 2019-12-28 08:43:29 / December 28, 2019 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39015367. Id of event: ci39015367. Exact location, longitude -117.4175034° West, latitude 35.6121674° North, depth = 8.1 km. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:43:29 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles).

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km SSW of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4175034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6121674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 2019-12-28 08:43:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-28 08:50:55 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 143 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 ci39015367 Id of event.
Event Code 39015367 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39015367, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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