A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. Exact location, longitude -117.5240021° West, latitude 35.7211685° North, depth = 2.21 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.21 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 22:42:21 / July 4, 2019 @ 10:42 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38445295. Unique identifier: ci38445295. The temblor was picked up at 14:42:21 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-nine, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 12 km WSW of Searles Valley, CA.
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