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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag strikes near Borrego Springs in California


Earthquake location 33.4583321S, -116.4243317WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Borrego Springs in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.17 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -116.4243317° West, 33.4583321° North, depth 10.17 km. Id of earthquake: ci37377079. Event ids that are associated: ci37377079. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:14:11 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 11:14:11 / June 10, 2016 @ 11:14 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Good Hope, Calimesa, Winter Gardens (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NNW of Borrego Springs, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4243317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4583321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNW 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 2016-06-10 11:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 11:17:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.62 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 195 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 ci37377079 Id of event.
Event Code 37377079 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37377079, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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