A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The temblor was detected at 10:34:49 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.6978333 West, latitude 35.9118333 North, depth = 3.84 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38575455. Unique identifier: ci38575455. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 18:34:49 / July 15, 2019 @ 6:34 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.84 km (2 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 19 km E of Little Lake, CA.
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