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Minor earthquake: M3.19 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9353333S, -117.7151642WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:34:55 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38459647. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38459647. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:34:55 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:34 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.36 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.7151642° West, 35.9353333° North, depth 2.36 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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: 17 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7151642° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9353333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 07:34:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 00:57:02 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 157 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 ci38459647 Id of event.
Event Code 38459647 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38459647, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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