A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4511642 West, latitude 35.6153336 North, depth = 1.73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.73 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 15:19:16 / August 2, 2019 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ci38684415. Event ids that are associated: ci38684415. The temblor was picked up at 07:19:16 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 17 km SSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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