A light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) has struck 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). The temblor was detected at 19:36:16 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.67 km, -117.7285004° West, 35.901165° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:36:16 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:36 am. Unique identifier: ci38457615. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38457615.
Event epicenter was 31 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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