A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 04:02:07 / July 18, 2019 @ 4:02 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38593567. Id of event: ci38593567. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.47 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -117.8840027° West, latitude 36.1106682° North, depth = 0.47 km. The temblor was reported at 20:02:07 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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