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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.0981667S, -117.8638333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. The temblor was reported at 20:29:51 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.8638333° West, 36.0981667° North, depth 1.81 km. Event id: ci39114751. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39114751. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.81 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 04:29:51 / March 25, 2020 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8638333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0981667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE of Coso Junction, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-25 04:29:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 04:33:47 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 125 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02069 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 54 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 ci39114751 Id of event.
Event Code 39114751 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39114751, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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