A light earthquake magnitude 4.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:40:18 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:40 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443231. Unique identifier: ci38443231. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 2.13 km, -117.5250015° West, 35.706501° North. The 4.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:18 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.13 km (1 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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