A minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6011658 West, latitude 35.7753334 North, depth = 7.87 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 21:02:51 / July 7, 2019 @ 9:02 pm. Unique identifier: ci38479903. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38479903. The temblor was detected at 13:02:51 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.87 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days five hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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. 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: 18 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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