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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag has occurred near La Quinta in California


Earthquake location 33.4824982S, -116.3964996WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from La Quinta in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 00:13:01 / June 7, 2016 @ 12:13 am. The temblor was reported at 17:13:01 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.49 km, -116.3964996° West, 33.4824982° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37371615. Id of event: ci37371615. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.49 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fallbrook, Alpine, Twentynine Palms (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Menifee (c. 77 500 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SSW of La Quinta, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.3964996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4824982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSW of La Quinta, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-07 00:13:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 00:24:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 147 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 ci37371615 Id of event.
Event Code 37371615 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37371615, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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