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Minor earthquake, 3.63 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9091667S, -117.6893333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6893333 West, latitude 35.9091667 North, depth = 8.39 km. The temblor was detected at 20:13:06 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:13:06 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37220324. Unique identifier: ci37220324. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.39 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 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 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 eight hundred and five, in the last 10 days nine hundred and one, in the past 30 days nine hundred and two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km E of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6893333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9091667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E 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 04:13:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 00:59:48 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 3.702 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 203 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 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 mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37220324 Id of event.
Event Code 37220324 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37220324, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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