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Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.934166S, -117.6975021WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 23:03:35 / July 13, 2019 @ 11:03 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38561855. Id of event: ci38561855. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.48 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:03:35 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6975021 West, latitude 35.934166 North, depth = 1.48 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 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 3.22 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6975021° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.934166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2019-07-13 23:03:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 23:05:52 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 160 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 ci38561855 Id of event.
Event Code 38561855 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38561855, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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