A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.99 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 09:21:23 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:21 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5709991 West, latitude 35.7475014 North, depth = 3.99 km. Id of earthquake: ci38460895. Event ids that are associated: ci38460895. The temblor was detected at 01:21:23 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter).
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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 15 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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