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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 18 km E of Little Lake, CA


Earthquake location 35.9511681S, -117.7118301WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38470167. Id of event: ci38470167. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.57 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7118301 West, latitude 35.9511681 North, depth = 1.57 km. The temblor was detected at 17:32:22 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 01:32:22 / July 7, 2019 @ 1:32 am.

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fifty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7118301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9511681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.57 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 2019-07-07 01:32:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 02:16:19 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 automatic 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 137 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08591 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 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 ci38470167 Id of event.
Event Code 38470167 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38470167, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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