Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.65 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7426682 West, latitude 35.947834 North, depth = 2.65 km. Id of earthquake: ci38460959. Event ids that are associated: ci38460959. The temblor was detected at 01:27:59 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:27:59 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 four hundred and eighty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7426682° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.947834° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2019-07-06 09:27:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-07 00:52:22	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	reviewed	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	134	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	ci38460959	Id of event.
Event Code	38460959	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38460959,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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