A light earthquake with magnitude 4.37 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Wednesday. The 4.37-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:39 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38525215. Id of event: ci38525215. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8700027 West, latitude 36.1488342 North, depth = 1.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 00:15:39 / July 11, 2019 @ 12:15 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.09 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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 NNE of Coso Junction, CA.
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