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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8743333S, -117.6718333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Event id: ci38467783. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38467783. The temblor was reported at 12:36:17 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.64 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 20:36:17 / July 6, 2019 @ 8:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6718333° West, 35.8743333° North, depth 6.64 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and eighteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 22 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6718333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8743333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 20:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:46:34 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 ci38467783 Id of event.
Event Code 38467783 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38467783, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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