A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 01:05:06 / July 7, 2019 @ 1:05 am. Unique identifier: ci38469967. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38469967, us70004dfr. The temblor was detected at 17:05:06 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.28 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 2.28 km, -117.5116653° West, 35.6693344° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ninety-six, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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