A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Unique identifier: ci38467311. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38467311. Exact location of event, longitude -117.5026667 West, latitude 35.658 North, depth = 2.6 km. The temblor was reported at 11:37:59 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 19:37:59 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.6 km (2 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 four hundred and sixty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred 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: 15 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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