A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.97 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5393295 West, latitude 35.6756668 North, depth = 6.97 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 21:07:18 / August 9, 2019 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:07:18 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38949408. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38949408.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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