A minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of event, depth 5.51 km, -117.6241684° West, 35.7859993° North. The temblor was detected at 13:46:37 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.51 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 21:46:37 / July 18, 2019 @ 9:46 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38599327. Id of event: ci38599327.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days two hundred and five, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 19 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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