A minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:03:14 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38459311. Unique identifier: ci38459311. Exact location of event, depth 7.99 km, -117.5366669° West, 35.652832° North. The 3.45-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:03:14 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.99 km (5 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Close 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 four hundred and twenty-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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