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Light earthquake: M4.57 quake has struck near Lone Pine in CA


Earthquake location 36.456665S, -117.9271698WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.57 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Lone Pine in CA. Exact location of event, depth 8.41 km, -117.9271698° West, 36.456665° North. Unique identifier: ci39494008. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39494008, ew1593021560. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:59:19 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 17:59:19 / June 24, 2020 @ 5:59 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.41 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km SE of Lone Pine, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.57 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9271698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.456665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE of Lone Pine, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-24 17:59:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 18:05:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 321 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,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1245 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39494008 Id of event.
Event Code 39494008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39494008,ew1593021560, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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