A light earthquake magnitude 4.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6978333 West, latitude 35.8883333 North, depth = 8.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.93 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:31:48 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37219652. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219652. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:31:48 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:31 am.
Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and sixty-five, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 20 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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