A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 20:58:12 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 04:58:12 / July 6, 2019 @ 4:58 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.07 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -117.4318314 West, latitude 35.6300011 North, depth = 3.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38458135. Unique identifier: ci38458135.
The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and nineteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km S of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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