A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 06:20:33 / July 6, 2019 @ 6:20 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ci38458839. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38458839. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:20:33 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.7226667 West, latitude 35.8935 North, depth = 3.59 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.59 km (2 miles).
Close 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. Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 17 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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