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Minor earthquake, 3.79 mag has occurred near Little Lake in CA


Earthquake location 35.947834S, -117.6918335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.6918335° West, latitude 35.947834° North, depth = 1.42 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.42 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.79-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:15:29 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38479967, us70004e9b. Unique identifier: ci38479967. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 21:15:29 / July 7, 2019 @ 9:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and one, in the past 30 days five hundred and two and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km E of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.79 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6918335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.947834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km E 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 2019-07-07 21:15:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 21:23:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.65 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 221 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07414 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 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 ci38479967 Id of event.
Event Code 38479967 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38479967,us70004e9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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