Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8888333S, -117.6551667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.7 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, depth 2.7 km, -117.6551667° West, 35.8888333° North. Event id: ci38508519. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38508519. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 23:04:57 / July 9, 2019 @ 11:04 pm. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:04:57 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 fifty-one, 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 was reported nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

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: 23 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6551667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8888333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2019-07-09 23:04:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 23:08:45 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05907 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 36 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 ci38508519 Id of event.
Event Code 38508519 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38508519, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply