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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9796677S, -117.7823334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.83 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:43:21 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 17:43:21 / July 10, 2019 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7823334 West, latitude 35.9796677 North, depth = 2.83 km. Event id: ci38521039. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38521039.

Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days six hundred and ten, in the past 30 days six hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km ENE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7823334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9796677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ENE 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 2019-07-10 17:43:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 17:45:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 ci38521039 Id of event.
Event Code 38521039 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38521039, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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