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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8905S, -117.6718333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6718333 West, latitude 35.8905 North, depth = 9.18 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38463927. Id of event: ci38463927. The temblor was picked up at 05:45:30 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 13:45:30 / July 6, 2019 @ 1:45 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.18 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 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 four hundred and ninety-one, in the last 10 days six hundred and three, in the past 30 days six hundred and four and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 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 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6718333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 13:45:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 13:49:24 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 125 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07263 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 52 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 ci38463927 Id of event.
Event Code 38463927 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38463927, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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