A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.69 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.7056656° West, 35.8684998° North, depth 6.69 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 02:35:52 / July 16, 2019 @ 2:35 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci38577799. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38577799. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:52 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days six hundred and eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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