A minor earthquake magnitude 3.91 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Saturday. The 3.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:30:54 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.28 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 10:30:54 / July 27, 2019 @ 10:30 am. Id of earthquake: ci38653975. Event ids that are associated: ci38653975. Exact location, longitude -117.4731674° West, latitude 35.637001° North, depth = 1.28 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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