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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8758333S, -117.6998333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:15:13 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ci38462167. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38462167. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 11:15:13 / July 6, 2019 @ 11:15 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6998333 West, latitude 35.8758333 North, depth = 6.67 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eighty-two, 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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6998333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8758333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 11:15:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 11:19:09 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 ci38462167 Id of event.
Event Code 38462167 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38462167, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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