A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.6118333° West, latitude 35.7741667° North, depth = 9.88 km. Global time and date of event 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 03:40:51 / July 6, 2019 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci37219868. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37219868. The temblor was picked up at 19:40:51 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.88 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and ninety-two, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days nine hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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