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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Borrego Springs in California


Earthquake location 33.2664986S, -116.2795029WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Borrego Springs in California on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 13:14:36 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 21:14:36 / November 25, 2015 @ 9:14 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.67 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.2795029 West, latitude 33.2664986 North, depth = 2.67 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37277783. Id of event: ci37277783.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poway, Valle Vista, Winter Gardens (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Poway (c. 47 800 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km E of Borrego Springs, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2795029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2664986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E 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 2015-11-25 21:14:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 21:29:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 0 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 138 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 ci37277783 Id of event.
Event Code 37277783 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37277783, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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