A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. Unique identifier: ci38444847. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38444847. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.63 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 21:42:00 / July 4, 2019 @ 9:42 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:42:00 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.5326691° West, latitude 35.7178345° North, depth = 4.63 km.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-seven, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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