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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Fort Irwin in CA


Earthquake location 35.6295S, -116.8386667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Fort Irwin in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.33 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38820375. Id of event: ci38820375. Exact location of event, depth 0.33 km, -116.8386667° West, 35.6295° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:03:00 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/19 / 2019-09-09 01:03:00 / September 9, 2019 @ 1:03 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest, Fort Irwin (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km NNW of Fort Irwin, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8386667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NNW of Fort Irwin, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-09 01:03:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-09 15:37:00 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 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 121 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci38820375 Id of event.
Event Code 38820375 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38820375, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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