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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9189987S, -117.6898346WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:20:57 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 18:20:57 / July 8, 2019 @ 6:20 pm. Exact location of event, depth 2.04 km, -117.6898346° West, 35.9189987° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.04 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: ci38490007. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38490007.

Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6898346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9189987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 18:20:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 18:23:12 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 130 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 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 ci38490007 Id of event.
Event Code 38490007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38490007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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