A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7256699 West, latitude 35.8953323 North, depth = 4.17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.17 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 16:22:36 / July 8, 2019 @ 4:22 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38488879. Id of event: ci38488879. The temblor was picked up at 16:22:36 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 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 eighty-six, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten 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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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. 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: 17 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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