A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.712° West, latitude 35.9121667° North, depth = 2.1 km. Unique identifier: ci38458567. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38458567, us70004bvm. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 05:51:49 / July 6, 2019 @ 5:51 am. The temblor was reported at 21:51:49 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and seventy-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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