A light earthquake with magnitude 4.92 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Friday. Unique identifier: ci37219484. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219484. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:22:17 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.51 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5535 West, latitude 35.7538333 North, depth = 3.51 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:22:17 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, Alta Sierra, California City. Close 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), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and fourty-one, in the last 10 days eight hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 14 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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