A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.01 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 20:49:49 / August 22, 2019 @ 8:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -117.7095032° West, 35.9090004° North, depth 1.92 km. The temblor was detected at 12:49:49 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.92 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38996632. Id of event: ci38996632.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km E of Little Lake, CA.
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