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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9436684S, -117.6858368WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci40697223. Unique identifier: ci40697223. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:46:04 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.6858368° West, latitude 35.9436684° North, depth = 4.39 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 09:46:04 / August 11, 2024 @ 9:46 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6858368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9436684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km E 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 2024-08-11 09:46:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-11 09:48:21 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 121 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 ci40697223 Id of event.
Event Code 40697223 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40697223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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