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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9453316S, -117.7034988WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 00:50:22 / July 16, 2019 @ 12:50 am. Event id: ci38577303. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38577303. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7034988 West, latitude 35.9453316 North, depth = 2.2 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.2 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:50:22 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter).

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). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 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. 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: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7034988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9453316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.2 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 2019-07-16 00:50:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 00:52:35 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 146 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 ci38577303 Id of event.
Event Code 38577303 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38577303, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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