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Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9593315S, -117.7129974WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Unique identifier: ci40920551. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40920551. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/25 / 2025-04-10 01:43:14 / April 10, 2025 @ 1:43 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7129974 West, latitude 35.9593315 North, depth = 5.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:43:14 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 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. 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: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7129974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9593315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 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 2025-04-10 01:43:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-10 01:48:07 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 3.885 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 185 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci40920551 Id of event.
Event Code 40920551 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40920551, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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