A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:13:45 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:13 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4854965° West, 35.6980019° North, depth 12.04 km. The 3.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:13:45 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38443439. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38443439. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.04 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 sixty-seven, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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