A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5198364 West, latitude 35.5704994 North, depth = 8.9 km. The temblor was reported at 02:09:18 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 10:09:18 / July 6, 2019 @ 10:09 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38461447. Id of event: ci38461447.
Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four hundred and five, in the last 10 days five hundred and four, in the past 30 days five hundred and five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 15 km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA.
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