A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38487839. Event ids that are associated: ci38487839. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.71 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.4861679° West, latitude 35.6590004° North, depth = 3.71 km. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:31:01 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 14:31:01 / July 8, 2019 @ 2:31 pm.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 14 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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