A light earthquake with magnitude 4.23 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 15.11 km, -117.6526667° West, 35.8656667° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ci38457575. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38457575. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.11 km (9 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:29:15 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:29 am. The temblor was reported at 19:29:15 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fifty-six, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 24 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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