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Light earthquake, 4.01 mag has occurred near Lone Pine in CA


Earthquake location 36.4406662S, -117.9934998WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.01 (ml/mb) was reported 18 km SSE of Lone Pine, CA (11 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38683914, ew1599810945. Unique identifier: ci38683914. Exact location of earthquake, -117.9934998° West, 36.4406662° North, depth 3.75 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.75 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/09/20 / 2020-09-11 07:55:45 / September 11, 2020 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:55:45 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 18 km SSE of Lone Pine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9934998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4406662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2020-09-11 07:55:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-11 08:01:03 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 6.32 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 247 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,ew, 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 0.06989 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 ci38683914 Id of event.
Event Code 38683914 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38683914,ew1599810945, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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