A light earthquake with magnitude 4.52 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Searles Valley in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5773315 West, latitude 35.7643318 North, depth = 6.9 km. The temblor was detected at 21:38:15 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.9 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 05:38:15 / July 7, 2019 @ 5:38 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38472279. Unique identifier: ci38472279.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 16 km W of Searles Valley, CA.
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