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Light earthquake, 4.33 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8866667S, -117.6491667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.33 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.6491667° West, latitude 35.8866667° North, depth = 10.85 km. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:26:51 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.85 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:26:51 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci37219556. Event ids that are associated: ci37219556.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fifty-two, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6491667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8866667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2019-07-06 03:26:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-30 18:48:38 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 4.432 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 reviewed 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 288 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 ci37219556 Id of event.
Event Code 37219556 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219556, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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