A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The temblor was reported at 19:35:48 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 03:35:48 / July 16, 2019 @ 3:35 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38578079. Id of event: ci38578079. Exact location of event, depth 11.07 km, -117.4468333° West, 35.6595° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.07 km (7 miles).
Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 13 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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