A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -117.5471649° West, 35.6764984° North, depth 6.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.52 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39028647. Unique identifier: ci39028647. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 16:11:18 / January 8, 2020 @ 4:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:11:18 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest.
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 three, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one thousand and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 13 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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