A light earthquake magnitude 4.21 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 18:56:22 / July 4, 2019 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ci37420717. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37420717. Exact location, longitude -117.5541667° West, latitude 35.7086667° North, depth = 1.16 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.16 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:56:22 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, Alta Sierra, California City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and eighty-six, in the last 10 days seven hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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