A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Lone Pine in California on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8533325 West, latitude 36.1818352 North, depth = 0.42 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 11:35:23 / February 15, 2018 @ 11:35 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38109320. Unique identifier: ci38109320. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:35:23 / 3:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.42 km (0 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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