A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.93 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 11:17:27 / July 11, 2019 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8793335 West, latitude 36.1565018 North, depth = 0.93 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:17:27 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38531903. Event ids that are associated: ci38531903.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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