A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5595° West, 35.6718333° North, depth 1.5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38459519. Id of event: ci38459519. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 07:24:15 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.5 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:24:15 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and three, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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