Minor earthquake: M3.06 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.59 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: ci38458735. Event ids that are associated: ci38458735, nn00691133. The temblor was picked up at 22:09:08 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:09:08 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:09 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7088318 West, latitude 35.9023323 North, depth = 7.59 km.

The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and sixty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7088318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9023323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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 06:09:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-07 01:00:09	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	144	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1001	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	ci38458735	Id of event.
Event Code	38458735	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38458735,nn00691133,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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