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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8726667S, -117.6746667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6746667 West, latitude 35.8726667 North, depth = 8.67 km. The temblor was detected at 20:30:44 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.67 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38457919. Unique identifier: ci38457919. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:30:44 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:30 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 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 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6746667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8726667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 04:30:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 21:59:32 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 164 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0846 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 ci38457919 Id of event.
Event Code 38457919 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457919, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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