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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.7691667S, -118.0153333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Id of earthquake: ci39572543. Event ids that are associated: ci39572543. Exact location of earthquake, -118.0153333° West, 35.7691667° North, depth 2.54 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/21 / 2021-03-05 13:22:02 / March 5, 2021 @ 1:22 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.54 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:22:02 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 21 km SSW of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0153333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7691667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSW 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 2021-03-05 13:22:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-05 13:25:50 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 126 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 ci39572543 Id of event.
Event Code 39572543 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39572543, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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