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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.864S, -117.6891667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Event id: ci38558175. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38558175. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.71 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -117.6891667 West, latitude 35.864 North, depth = 7.71 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 11:22:38 / July 13, 2019 @ 11:22 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:22:38 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter).

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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days six hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days six hundred and ninety-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6891667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2019-07-13 11:22:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 11:26:35 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08274 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 46 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 ci38558175 Id of event.
Event Code 38558175 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38558175, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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