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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9231682S, -117.692337WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.39 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.692337° West, 35.9231682° North, depth 2.39 km. The temblor was detected at 10:21:27 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 18:21:27 / July 8, 2019 @ 6:21 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38490015. Unique identifier: ci38490015.

Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 19 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 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.692337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9231682° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2019-07-08 18:21:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 18:23:45 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 129 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04205 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 44 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 ci38490015 Id of event.
Event Code 38490015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38490015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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