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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8791656S, -117.6894989WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6894989 West, latitude 35.8791656 North, depth = 1.47 km. Id of earthquake: ci38457999. Event ids that are associated: ci38457999. The temblor was reported at 20:41:49 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:41:49 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles).

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). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 21 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6894989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8791656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 04:41:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 23:18:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 183 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1255 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 40 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 ci38457999 Id of event.
Event Code 38457999 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38457999, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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