A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38666991. Unique identifier: ci38666991. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.31 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:51:57 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/19 / 2019-07-29 16:51:57 / July 29, 2019 @ 4:51 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.5453339° West, latitude 35.6843338° North, depth = 3.31 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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