A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Olancha in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38248602. Unique identifier: ci38248602. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:02:36 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.867836° West, latitude 36.1860008° North, depth = 2.05 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 08:02:36 / November 17, 2019 @ 8:02 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.05 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alta Sierra, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Alta Sierra (c. 7 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SE of Olancha, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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