A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4564972 West, latitude 35.6166649 North, depth = 9.65 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.65 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38593247. Unique identifier: ci38593247. The temblor was picked up at 19:02:37 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 03:02:37 / July 18, 2019 @ 3:02 am.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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