A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 14:07:28 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.4998333 West, latitude 35.6841667 North, depth = 6.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38455463. Unique identifier: ci38455463. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 22:07:28 / July 5, 2019 @ 10:07 pm.
The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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