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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8971667S, -117.7305WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.84 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 9.84 km, -117.7305° West, 35.8971667° North. The temblor was picked up at 19:44:50 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:44:50 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:44 am. Id of earthquake: ci37219948. Event ids that are associated: ci37219948.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and ninety-seven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7305° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8971667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 03:44:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 17:45:13 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 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 167 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 ci37219948 Id of event.
Event Code 37219948 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219948, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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