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Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag strikes near Searles Valley in CA


Earthquake location 35.6986656S, -117.4956665WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 16:40:56 / May 20, 2020 @ 4:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:40:56 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39208391. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39208391. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4956665° West, 35.6986656° North, depth 6.74 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.74 km (4 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4956665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6986656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW 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 2020-05-20 16:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 16:43:05 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 197 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39208391 Id of event.
Event Code 39208391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39208391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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