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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8766667S, -117.6963333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:24:47 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:24:47 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:24 am. Id of earthquake: ci38459527. Event ids that are associated: ci38459527. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.13 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.6963333° West, latitude 35.8766667° North, depth = 9.13 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and eighteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 20 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6963333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8766667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE 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 2019-07-06 07:24:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:13:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 123 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08787 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 48 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 ci38459527 Id of event.
Event Code 38459527 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38459527, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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