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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag was detected near Coso Junction in CA


Earthquake location 36.1473351S, -117.9840012WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39462368. Unique identifier: ci39462368. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9840012 West, latitude 36.1473351 North, depth = 1.65 km. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:13:45 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.65 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/20 / 2020-06-03 23:13:45 / June 3, 2020 @ 11:13 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NNW of Coso Junction, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9840012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1473351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNW 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 2020-06-03 23:13:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-03 23:21:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 183 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1087 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 70 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 ci39462368 Id of event.
Event Code 39462368 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39462368, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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