A minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 20:09:14 / August 4, 2019 @ 8:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.63 km (3 miles). Event id: ci38692783. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38692783. The temblor was picked up at 12:09:14 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.6735001° West, latitude 35.848835° North, depth = 5.63 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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