Earthquake: M 2.51 quake strikes near Borrego Springs in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.51 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Borrego Springs in California. The temblor was reported at 02:58:27 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10.72 km (7 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-17 10:58:27 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -116.2495 West, latitude 33.2883333 North, depth 10.72 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop).

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.2495° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2883333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km ENE of Borrego Springs, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2014-12-17 22:58:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-17 23:04:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami		This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	97	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	ci	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37297048	Id of event.
Event Code	37297048	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	ci37297048	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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