A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38447047. Unique identifier: ci38447047. Exact location of event, longitude -117.519 West, latitude 35.661 North, depth = 0.21 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 02:59:49 / July 5, 2019 @ 2:59 am. The temblor was detected at 18:59:49 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.21 km (0 miles).
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and one, in the last 10 days one hundred and one, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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