A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Meadview in Arizona on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000477q. Id of event: us7000477q. The temblor was picked up at 00:58:59 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/19 / 2019-06-29 07:58:59 / June 29, 2019 @ 7:58 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.42 km (10 miles). Exact location, longitude -113.8115° West, latitude 36.3965° North, depth = 16.42 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ivins, Washington, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km NNE of Meadview, Arizona.
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