A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4078369° West, 36.0023346° North, depth -0.84 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:02:20 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.84 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 15:02:20 / July 28, 2019 @ 3:02 pm. Event id: ci38661399. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38661399.
Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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