A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.6646652° West, 35.6531677° North, depth 13.19 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.19 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:43:57 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:43 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38457663. Unique identifier: ci38457663. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:43:57 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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