A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.84 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 9.84 km, -117.7305° West, 35.8971667° North. The temblor was picked up at 19:44:50 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:44:50 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:44 am. Id of earthquake: ci37219948. Event ids that are associated: ci37219948.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and ninety-seven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km ESE of Little Lake, CA.
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