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Light earthquake, 4.63 mag strikes near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.9071655S, -117.741333WA light earthquake magnitude 4.63 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.05 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:01:51 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. The 4.63-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:01:51 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.05 km, -117.741333° West, 35.9071655° North. Id of earthquake: ci38458679. Event ids that are associated: ci38458679, us70004bwb.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and seventy-three, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.741333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9071655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 06:01:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:39:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.29 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 330 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 ci38458679 Id of event.
Event Code 38458679 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38458679,us70004bwb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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