A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38462047. Id of event: ci38462047. The temblor was picked up at 03:06:00 / 3:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 11:06:00 / July 6, 2019 @ 11:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -117.6275° West, latitude 35.8018333° North, depth = 5.5 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and eighty-six, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days six hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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