A minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.84 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -117.6618347° West, latitude 35.8203316° North, depth = 3.84 km. The 3.45-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:48:11 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 15:48:11 / July 7, 2019 @ 3:48 pm. Unique identifier: ci38477303. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38477303.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-one, 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 have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km N of Ridgecrest, CA.
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