A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5250015 West, latitude 35.6838341 North, depth = 9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 08:23:00 / July 28, 2019 @ 8:23 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:23:00 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38659655. Event ids that are associated: ci38659655.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SW of Searles Valley, CA.
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