A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.49 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ci38450271. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38450271. Exact location of event, depth 6.49 km, -117.5933304° West, 35.746666° North. Global time and date of event 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 11:10:09 / July 5, 2019 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:10:09 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and six, in the last 10 days one hundred and six, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 16 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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