A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maricopa in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.64 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37763407, nc72892616. Unique identifier: ci37763407. The temblor was picked up at 03:12:56 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.3069992 West, latitude 35.029335 North, depth = 12.64 km. Global time and date of event 15/09/17 / 2017-09-15 11:12:56 / September 15, 2017 @ 11:12 am UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ventura, Delano, Goleta. Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 88 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km ESE of Maricopa, California.
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