Minor earthquake 3.17 mag, 10 km NNE of Ocotillo Wells, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ocotillo Wells in CA on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/16 / 2016-12-20 20:11:04 / December 20, 2016 @ 8:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:11:04 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37768032. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37768032. Exact location of event, depth 10.88 km, -116.0878296° West, 33.2210007° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.88 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Holtville, Palm Springs, Alpine (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNE of Ocotillo Wells, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alpine CA Cathedral City El Centro Holtville Indio Ocotillo Wells Palm Desert Palm Springs United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0878296° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2210007° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNE 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	2016-12-20 20:11:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-20 20:17:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1421	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	ci37768032	Id of event.
Event Code	37768032	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37768032,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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