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Light earthquake: M4.24 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.901165S, -117.7285004WA light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) has struck 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). The temblor was detected at 19:36:16 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.67 km, -117.7285004° West, 35.901165° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:36:16 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:36 am. Unique identifier: ci38457615. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38457615.

Event epicenter was 31 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.

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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: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7285004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.901165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.67 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 03:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 03:38:36 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 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 277 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08693 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 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 ci38457615 Id of event.
Event Code 38457615 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457615, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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