A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Coso Junction in CA. Global time and date of event 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 03:53:46 / August 26, 2019 @ 3:53 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci39009592. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39009592. Exact location of earthquake, -118.0706667° West, 36.1386667° North, depth 0.24 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.24 km (0 miles). The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:53:46 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ridgecrest, Alta Sierra (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 15 km NW of Coso Junction, CA.
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