A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The temblor was reported at 11:54:29 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.7266693° West, latitude 35.8959999° North, depth = 4.39 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38467423. Unique identifier: ci38467423. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 19:54:29 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:54 pm.
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 Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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