A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38475311. Unique identifier: ci38475311. Exact location, longitude -117.6406631° West, latitude 35.7386665° North, depth = 23.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.57 km (15 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:04:04 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 11:04:04 / July 7, 2019 @ 11:04 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and three, in the past 30 days six hundred and four and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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