A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.7093353° West, 35.9075012° North, depth 4.29 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.29 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 21:09:17 / August 22, 2019 @ 9:09 pm. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:09:17 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38996816. Unique identifier: ci38996816.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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