A light earthquake magnitude 4.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38457599. Unique identifier: ci38457599. The 4.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:32:46 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.7 km, -117.7350006° West, 35.8951683° North. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:32:46 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:32 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.7 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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 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: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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