A minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 19:42:15 / July 17, 2019 @ 7:42 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4583359 West, latitude 35.6500015 North, depth = 2.27 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.27 km (1 miles). The 3.61-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:42:15 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38590903. Unique identifier: ci38590903.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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