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Light earthquake, 4.24 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8976667S, -117.705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.43 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.705 West, latitude 35.8976667 North, depth = 7.43 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:34:10 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:34 am. The 4.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:34:10 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37219724. Unique identifier: ci37219724.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 19 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 4.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8976667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 03:34:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 21:43:12 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 4.539 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 277 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06692 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 53 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 ci37219724 Id of event.
Event Code 37219724 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219724, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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