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Light earthquake, 4.19 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8695S, -117.6906667WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.19 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6906667° West, 35.8695° North, depth 2.66 km. The 4.19-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:28:25 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:28:25 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37219588. Unique identifier: ci37219588. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.66 km (2 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fifty-five, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 21 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6906667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 03:28:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-30 20:45:00 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 5.053 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 reviewed 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 270 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 0.0848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 ci37219588 Id of event.
Event Code 37219588 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37219588, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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