A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 17:40:02 / July 4, 2019 @ 5:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:02 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38443223. Unique identifier: ci38443223. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.1 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.5756683° West, latitude 35.7231674° North, depth = 3.1 km.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 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 fourty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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