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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 13 km E of Little Lake, CA


Earthquake location 35.9196667S, -117.761WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Little Lake in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38460679. Unique identifier: ci38460679. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:58 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.761 West, latitude 35.9196667 North, depth = 7.79 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.79 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:02:58 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:02 am.

The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 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 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.761° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9196667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 09:02:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 09:07:00 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 121 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 ci38460679 Id of event.
Event Code 38460679 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38460679, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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