A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Little Lake in CA. The temblor was reported at 01:10:02 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.6940002° West, latitude 35.8484993° North, depth = 4.61 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/19 / 2019-12-24 09:10:02 / December 24, 2019 @ 9:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.61 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: ci39011687. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39011687.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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