A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5891667° West, 35.7818333° North, depth 8.6 km. Id of earthquake: ci38462927. Event ids that are associated: ci38462927. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 12:12:35 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:12 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.6 km (5 miles). The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:12:35 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and sixty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 17 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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