A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38654743. Id of event: ci38654743. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 14:14:59 / July 27, 2019 @ 2:14 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6976667 West, latitude 35.9425 North, depth = 3.86 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:14:59 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.86 km (2 miles).
Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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