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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8833351S, -117.7243347WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38464799, us70004cua. Unique identifier: ci38464799. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.78 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.7243347° West, latitude 35.8833351° North, depth = 3.78 km. The temblor was detected at 07:09:15 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 15:09:15 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 18 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7243347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8833351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 15:09:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 18:59:33 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 168 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 ci38464799 Id of event.
Event Code 38464799 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38464799,us70004cua, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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