A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Monday. Exact location, longitude -117.6271667° West, latitude 35.7929993° North, depth = 2.7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38578567. Unique identifier: ci38578567. The temblor was reported at 21:26:52 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.7 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 05:26:52 / July 16, 2019 @ 5:26 am.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest.
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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