A minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ci38480919. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38480919. The 3.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:36:56 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.6713333 West, latitude 35.8284988 North, depth = 4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 23:36:56 / July 7, 2019 @ 11:36 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 83 km (52 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 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days five hundred and five, in the past 30 days five hundred and six and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 23 km N of Ridgecrest, CA.
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