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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Lone Pine in CA


Earthquake location 36.4488333S, -117.9808333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 km SSE of Lone Pine, CA (11 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.61 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 00:33:57 / June 23, 2020 @ 12:33 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:33:57 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.9808333 West, latitude 36.4488333 North, depth = 6.61 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39490976. Id of event: ci39490976.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km SSE of Lone Pine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9808333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4488333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Lone Pine, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-23 00:33:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 00:40:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.5 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 130 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 ci39490976 Id of event.
Event Code 39490976 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39490976, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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