A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6774979° West, 35.8931656° North, depth 2.58 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/19 / 2019-08-14 21:04:11 / August 14, 2019 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.58 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.56-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:04:11 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38969080. Unique identifier: ci38969080.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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