A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bombay Beach in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.88 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -115.7181702 West, latitude 33.2573318 North, depth = 2.88 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 00:21:00 / December 18, 2015 @ 12:21 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37285815. Unique identifier: ci37285815. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:21:00 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palm Desert, Progreso, Bermuda Dunes. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km S of Bombay Beach, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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