A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Global time and date of event 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 00:28:49 / July 5, 2019 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.03 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5465 West, latitude 35.7215 North, depth = 7.03 km. Event id: ci38446031. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38446031. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:28:49 / 4:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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