A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 05:43:36 / July 11, 2019 @ 5:43 am. The temblor was reported at 21:43:36 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.99 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38528807. Id of event: ci38528807. Exact location, longitude -117.3518295° West, latitude 36.0395012° North, depth = 0.99 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km N of Searles Valley, CA.
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