A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4721667° West, 35.6256667° North, depth 0.4 km. The temblor was reported at 17:21:08 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci38953824. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38953824. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 01:21:08 / August 11, 2019 @ 1:21 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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