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Minor earthquake, 3.62 mag was detected near Ocotillo Wells in CA

Posted by admin on October 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.227S, -116.1155WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ocotillo Wells in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.93 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/16 / 2016-10-31 10:41:44 / October 31, 2016 @ 10:41 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci37514887. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37514887. Exact location of event, depth 9.93 km, -116.1155° West, 33.227° North. The temblor was picked up at 03:41:44 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Garnet, Calexico, Holtville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.62 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.1155° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-31 10:41:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-31 10:47:31 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 4.67 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 202 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37514887 Id of event.
Event Code 37514887 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37514887, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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