A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Searles Valley in CA on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -117.6210022° West, latitude 35.7941666° North, depth = 3.58 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39021735. Id of event: ci39021735. The temblor was picked up at 21:48:05 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 05:48:05 / January 3, 2020 @ 5:48 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.58 km (2 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ridgecrest. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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