A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.704° West, latitude 35.9068333° North, depth = 8.84 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:30:59 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37219628. Id of event: ci37219628. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:30:59 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:30 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.84 km (5 miles).
The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and sixty, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-nine 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: 19 km E of Little Lake, CA.
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