A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The temblor was reported at 10:10:32 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.47 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443415. Unique identifier: ci38443415. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:10:32 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:10 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.5381699° West, latitude 35.6593323° North, depth = 8.47 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter 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 fifty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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 ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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