A minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.6643295° West, latitude 35.8266678° North, depth = 3.02 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 00:41:52 / July 7, 2019 @ 12:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38469775, us70004df0. Unique identifier: ci38469775. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.02 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:41:52 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 three hundred and ninety, in the last 10 days five hundred and ten, in the past 30 days five hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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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