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Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8875008S, -117.7020035WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 21:11:07 / August 22, 2019 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.21 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38996840. Id of event: ci38996840. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7020035 West, latitude 35.8875008 North, depth = 4.21 km. The temblor was reported at 13:11:07 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.52 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7020035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8875008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.21 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 2019-08-22 21:11:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-22 21:14:43 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 5.59 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 automatic 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 191 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 ci38996840 Id of event.
Event Code 38996840 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38996840, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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