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Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9029999S, -117.7034988WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7034988 West, latitude 35.9029999 North, depth = 2.82 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). The 3.12-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:45:07 / 6:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci39477608. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39477608. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/20 / 2020-06-13 06:45:07 / June 13, 2020 @ 6:45 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7034988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9029999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.82 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 2020-06-13 06:45:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-13 06:47:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 150 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 ci39477608 Id of event.
Event Code 39477608 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39477608, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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