A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The temblor was detected at 07:23:28 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.15 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 15:23:28 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:23 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6636658 West, latitude 35.8458328 North, depth = 8.15 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38464943. Id of event: ci38464943.
Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and thirty-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 24 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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