Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag has occurred near Bombay Beach in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bombay Beach in CA. Event id: ci37701520. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37701520. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:06:13 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/16 / 2016-09-27 03:06:13 / September 27, 2016 @ 3:06 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.87 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -115.6791687° West, 33.2709999° North, depth 2.87 km.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Progreso, Bermuda Dunes, Mexicali. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 10 km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6791687° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2709999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km 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	2016-09-27 03:06:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-27 03:08:38	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	155	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08438	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	ci37701520	Id of event.
Event Code	37701520	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37701520,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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