A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 00:00:01 / July 9, 2019 @ 12:00 am. The temblor was detected at 16:00:01 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5130005 West, latitude 35.6806679 North, depth = 5.73 km. Unique identifier: ci38493191. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38493191. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.73 km (4 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 14 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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