A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 23:34:00 / July 4, 2019 @ 11:34 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.04 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.5274963° West, 35.6588326° North, depth 5.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:34:00 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38445703. Event ids that are associated: ci38445703.
Epicenter of the event was 14 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days seventy-two, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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