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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Borrego Springs in CA


Earthquake location 33.4493333S, -116.4505WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Borrego Springs in CA. Exact location, longitude -116.4505° West, latitude 33.4493333° North, depth = 11.91 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.91 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:14 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 08:06:14 / June 10, 2016 @ 8:06 am. Id of earthquake: ci37142124. Event ids that are associated: ci37142124.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Murrieta (c. 103 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakeside, Vista, Wildomar.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 23 km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4493333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA 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 08:06:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-25 00:04:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 reviewed 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 158 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 ci37142124 Id of event.
Event Code 37142124 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37142124, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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