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Light earthquake, 4.06 mag has occurred near Ridgecrest in CA

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004cyv, ci38465703. Id of event: ci38465703. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 16:36:05 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.523 West, latitude 35.5705 North, depth = 10.05 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.05 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:36:05 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow Heights, Barstow, Fort Irwin (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and sixty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.523° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5705° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-06 16:36:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-07 02:29:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.58	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	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	257	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	,us,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05207	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	37	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	ci38465703	Id of event.
Event Code	38465703	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004cyv,ci38465703,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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