A minor earthquake magnitude 3.92 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 10:54:13 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.32 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:54:13 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.6016693 West, latitude 35.598999 North, depth = 2.32 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38443703. Id of event: ci38443703.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 7 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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