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Minor earthquake 2.84 mag, 19 km ESE of Little Lake, CA


Earthquake location 35.8761667S, -117.7066667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Event id: ci38463311. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38463311. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.39 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.7066667° West, latitude 35.8761667° North, depth = 2.39 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 12:45:45 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:45 pm. The temblor was picked up at 04:45:45 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and ninety-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and ten and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7066667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8761667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 12:45:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 12:56:06 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 124 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38463311 Id of event.
Event Code 38463311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38463311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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