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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.8484993S, -117.6940002WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The temblor was reported at 01:10:02 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.6940002° West, latitude 35.8484993° North, depth = 4.61 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/19 / 2019-12-24 09:10:02 / December 24, 2019 @ 9:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.61 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: ci39011687. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39011687.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6940002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8484993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.61 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 2019-12-24 09:10:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-24 09:12:23 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 126 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 ci39011687 Id of event.
Event Code 39011687 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39011687, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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