Minor earthquake, 3.66 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location of event, depth 4.55 km, -117.6791687° West, 35.9491653° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40697215, ew1723369510. Id of event: ci40697215. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.55 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 09:45:13 / August 11, 2024 @ 9:45 am. The 3.66-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:45:13 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 20 km E of Little Lake, CA.

Alta Sierra CA Little Lake Ridgecrest United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.66 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.6791687° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9491653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.55 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 09:45:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-11 09:50:15	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	4.184	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	206	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02339	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	80	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci40697215	Id of event.
Event Code	40697215	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40697215,ew1723369510,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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