Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag strikes near Ocotillo in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ocotillo in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 01:25:52 / December 16, 2016 @ 1:25 am. The temblor was picked up at 17:25:52 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -116.1368332 West, latitude 32.8306656 North, depth = 8.35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.35 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37765816. Id of event: ci37765816.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bonita, Poway, Lemon Grove. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Mesa (c. 57 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santee (c. 53 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Poway (c. 47 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km NW of Ocotillo, CA.

Bonita CA El Cajon La Mesa Lemon Grove Mexicali Mexico Ocotillo Poway Santee Tecate United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.1368332° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8306656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NW of Ocotillo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-16 01:25:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-16 01:30:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	208	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37765816	Id of event.
Event Code	37765816	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37765816,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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