A minor earthquake magnitude 3.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Little Lake in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: ci38459327. Event ids that are associated: ci38459327, us70004c0k. The 3.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:04:42 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.6 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.7434998° West, latitude 35.8824997° North, depth = 3.6 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:04:42 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:04 am.
Event epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and eighty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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