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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA

Posted by admin on August 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9884987S, -117.9199982WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.25 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9199982 West, latitude 35.9884987 North, depth = 3.25 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/16 / 2016-08-20 23:44:37 / August 20, 2016 @ 11:44 pm. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:44:37 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci37666480. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72681441, ci37666480.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 6 km NNW of Little Lake, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9199982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9884987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW 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 2016-08-20 23:44:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-20 23:48:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 138 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 ,nc,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03074 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 35 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 ci37666480 Id of event.
Event Code 37666480 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72681441,ci37666480, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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