Minor earthquake: M3.17 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:31:09 / 3:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.38 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38462351. Unique identifier: ci38462351. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7020035 West, latitude 35.9249992 North, depth = 1.38 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 11:31:09 / July 6, 2019 @ 11:31 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 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).

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 fourty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7020035° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9249992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.38 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 11:31:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-07 00:44:57	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	155	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0821	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	ci38462351	Id of event.
Event Code	38462351	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38462351,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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