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Light earthquake, 4.23 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8951683S, -117.7350006WA light earthquake magnitude 4.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38457599. Unique identifier: ci38457599. The 4.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:32:46 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.7 km, -117.7350006° West, 35.8951683° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:32:46 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:32 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.7 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7350006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8951683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Little Lake, 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 03:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 03:43:26 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 4.745 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 275 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08621 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 153 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 ci38457599 Id of event.
Event Code 38457599 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457599, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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