A light earthquake with magnitude 4.86 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.64 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:50:59 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:50 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:50:59 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38457703. Unique identifier: ci38457703. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7056656 West, latitude 35.9001656 North, depth = 6.64 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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