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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9355S, -117.701WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.701 West, latitude 35.9355 North, depth = 1.47 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 12:37:04 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:37 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles). Event id: ci38463175. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38463175. The temblor was picked up at 04:37:04 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and five, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days six hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.47 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 12:37:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 12:40:49 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 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 122 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 ci38463175 Id of event.
Event Code 38463175 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38463175, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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