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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8976669S, -117.7229996WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -117.7229996° West, latitude 35.8976669° North, depth = 7.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.52 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:07:21 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38589287. Event ids that are associated: ci38589287. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 15:07:21 / July 17, 2019 @ 3:07 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 17 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 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7229996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8976669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 2019-07-17 15:07:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 15:09:27 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 150 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07738 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 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 ci38589287 Id of event.
Event Code 38589287 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38589287, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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