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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9026667S, -117.717WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. The temblor was reported at 19:33:03 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci37219684. Event ids that are associated: ci37219684. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:33:03 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:33 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.09 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -117.717 West, latitude 35.9026667 North, depth = 8.09 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and sixty-eight, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.717° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9026667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 03:33:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 19:38:25 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 4.382 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 259 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 ci37219684 Id of event.
Event Code 37219684 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219684, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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