A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The temblor was picked up at 00:39:05 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5425034 West, latitude 35.6766663 North, depth = 0.4 km. Global time and date of event 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 08:39:05 / July 7, 2019 @ 8:39 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.4 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38473839. Unique identifier: ci38473839.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and eighty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and four 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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 ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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