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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9596667S, -117.7008333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.42 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.7008333° West, latitude 35.9596667° North, depth = 5.42 km. Global time and date of event 25/07/19 / 2019-07-25 21:54:42 / July 25, 2019 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:54:42 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38644343. Event ids that are associated: ci38644343.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was 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 three, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-eight 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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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. 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: 19 km E of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7008333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9596667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2019-07-25 21:54:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-25 21:58:39 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 131 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 ci38644343 Id of event.
Event Code 38644343 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38644343, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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