A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.63 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 07:20:26 / July 7, 2019 @ 7:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5393295 West, latitude 35.690834 North, depth = 6.63 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38473135. Unique identifier: ci38473135. The temblor was reported at 23:20:26 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter).
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). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-two, in the last 10 days five hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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