A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8721695 West, latitude 36.1578331 North, depth = 2.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38521823. Unique identifier: ci38521823. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.26 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 18:53:24 / July 10, 2019 @ 6:53 pm. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:24 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-nine 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: 14 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA.
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