A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.98 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.5 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:48:24 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:48 am. Exact location, longitude -117.69° West, latitude 35.9025° North, depth = 0.5 km. Unique identifier: ci37220300. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37220300. The temblor was picked up at 19:48:24 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, 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 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and three, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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