A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:30:10 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.26 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -117.5731659° West, 35.7140007° North, depth 4.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38990176. Unique identifier: ci38990176. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 00:30:10 / August 21, 2019 @ 12:30 am.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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