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Minor earthquake 3.56 mag, 17 km ESE of Little Lake, CA


Earthquake location 35.8881683S, -117.732666WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:05:21 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:05 am. The temblor was reported at 23:05:21 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.76 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.732666° West, 35.8881683° North, depth 5.76 km. Unique identifier: ci38459335. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38459335.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 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).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and five, in the last 10 days four hundred and ninety-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.732666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8881683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 07:05:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-06 20:12:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.17 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 195 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38459335 Id of event.
Event Code 38459335 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38459335, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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