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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8908348S, -117.7440033WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. Event id: ci38458071. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38458071. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:52:04 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.7440033° West, 35.8908348° North, depth 4.48 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.48 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:52:04 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:52 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7440033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8908348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 04:52:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:53:00 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 4.078 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 188 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 ci38458071 Id of event.
Event Code 38458071 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38458071, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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