A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38616919. Unique identifier: ci38616919. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 11:56:11 / July 21, 2019 @ 11:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -117.5143356° West, latitude 35.6565018° North, depth = 9.94 km. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:56:11 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.94 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 15 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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