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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Trona in CA


Earthquake location 35.9570007S, -117.0220032WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Trona in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 12:08:30 / August 16, 2020 @ 12:08 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.44 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.44 km, -117.0220032° West, 35.9570007° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39346591. Unique identifier: ci39346591. The temblor was detected at 12:08:30 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 39 km NE of Trona, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.0220032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9570007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NE 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 2020-08-16 12:08:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 12:10:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2221 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 44 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 ci39346591 Id of event.
Event Code 39346591 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39346591, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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