Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38458495. Unique identifier: ci38458495. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 05:40:08 / July 6, 2019 @ 5:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6740036° West, 35.8863335° North, depth 11 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:40:08 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-nine 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. 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: 22 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.6740036° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8863335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 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 05:40:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-06 05:48:03	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	166	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1071	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	ci38458495	Id of event.
Event Code	38458495	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38458495,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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