Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38461807, nn00691515. Unique identifier: ci38461807. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.68 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, depth 3.68 km, -117.7269974° West, 35.8983345° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:43:30 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:43 am UTC/GMT. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:43:30 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 eighty, 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 was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 17 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7269974° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8983345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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 10:43:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-07 00:46:55	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	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,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08952	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	37	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	ci38461807	Id of event.
Event Code	38461807	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38461807,nn00691515,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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