Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Bombay Beach in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Bombay Beach in CA on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 15:48:39 / September 26, 2016 @ 3:48 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:48:39 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37700560. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37700560. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.6928329 West, latitude 33.2989998 North, depth = 1.56 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.56 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palm Desert, Mexicali, Bermuda Dunes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6928329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2989998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-26 15:48:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-26 15:50:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	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	143	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06328	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	ci37700560	Id of event.
Event Code	37700560	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37700560,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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