A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38444791. Unique identifier: ci38444791. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.43 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 21:33:34 / July 4, 2019 @ 9:33 pm. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:33:34 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.5893326 West, latitude 35.6155014 North, depth = 5.43 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was California City, Ridgecrest (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 8 km E of Ridgecrest, CA.
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