A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.5 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:57:59 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38552039. Unique identifier: ci38552039. Exact location, longitude -117.7474976° West, latitude 35.9563332° North, depth = 0.5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 19:57:59 / July 12, 2019 @ 7:57 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 38 km (23 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days seven hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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