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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.927S, -117.7063333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 19:15:30 / July 12, 2019 @ 7:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7063333 West, latitude 35.927 North, depth = 2.37 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.37 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: ci38551727. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38551727. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:15:30 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter).

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

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 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 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7063333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.927° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2019-07-12 19:15:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-12 19:19:15 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04997 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ci38551727 Id of event.
Event Code 38551727 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38551727, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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