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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8504982S, -117.6764984WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:32:11 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38578055. Id of event: ci38578055. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 03:32:11 / July 16, 2019 @ 3:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6764984 West, latitude 35.8504982 North, depth = 7.26 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.26 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6764984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8504982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2019-07-16 03:32:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 03:34:19 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 161 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 ci38578055 Id of event.
Event Code 38578055 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38578055, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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