A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.97 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6143341 West, latitude 35.6375008 North, depth = 5.97 km. The 3.28-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:18:45 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:18:45 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:18 pm. Event id: ci38443487. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38443487.
Epicenter of the event was 5 km (3 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days seventy, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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