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Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 36.001667S, -117.8723297WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/17 / 2017-06-08 07:58:11 / June 8, 2017 @ 7:58 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72812361, ci37664623. Unique identifier: ci37664623. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8723297° West, 36.001667° North, depth 2.14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.14 km (1 miles). The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:58:11 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close 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).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 8 km NNE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8723297° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.001667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE 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 2017-06-08 07:58:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-08 08:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 141 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 ci37664623 Id of event.
Event Code 37664623 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72812361,ci37664623, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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