A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.1 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.479332° West, 35.6911659° North, depth 5.1 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 21:41:25 / July 6, 2019 @ 9:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38468247. Unique identifier: ci38468247. The temblor was detected at 13:41:25 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and sixty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 11 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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