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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8568344S, -117.685997WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.68 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci38586063. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38586063. Exact location of earthquake, -117.685997° West, 35.8568344° North, depth 3.68 km. The temblor was detected at 21:49:52 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 05:49:52 / July 17, 2019 @ 5:49 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.685997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8568344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2019-07-17 05:49:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 05:52:04 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 145 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 ci38586063 Id of event.
Event Code 38586063 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38586063, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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