A light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Little Lake in CA on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.43 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.705 West, latitude 35.8976667 North, depth = 7.43 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:34:10 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:34 am. The 4.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:34:10 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37219724. Unique identifier: ci37219724.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 78 km (49 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).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and seventy-three, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km ESE of Little Lake, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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