A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Event id: ci38443391. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38443391. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.4 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:07:09 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:07 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.6226654° West, latitude 35.5998344° North, depth = -0.4 km. The temblor was detected at 10:07:09 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-six, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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