A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7306667 West, latitude 35.9025 North, depth = 4.52 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:05:35 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:05:35 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:05 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci38458695. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38458695. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.52 km (3 miles).
Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and four, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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