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Minor earthquake 3.47 mag, 18 km E of Little Lake, CA


Earthquake location 35.9248352S, -117.7026672WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:49:48 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ci38461887. Event ids that are associated: ci38461887. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.12 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7026672 West, latitude 35.9248352 North, depth = 1.12 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:49:48 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7026672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9248352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km E 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 10:49:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:51:11 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 185 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 ci38461887 Id of event.
Event Code 38461887 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38461887, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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