A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.64 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 02:17:01 / July 7, 2019 @ 2:17 am. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4693298° West, 35.6028328° North, depth 4.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:17:01 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci38470471, us70004dgs. Unique identifier: ci38470471. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.27 km (3 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Irwin, 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 three hundred and seventy-two, in the last 10 days four hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 19 km E of Ridgecrest, CA.
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