Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Ocotillo Wells in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ocotillo Wells in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 06:48:42 / January 4, 2017 @ 6:48 am. Exact location of event, depth 9.33 km, -116.0693359° West, 33.0675011° North. The temblor was reported at 22:48:42 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.33 km (6 miles). Event id: ci37780256. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37780256.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palm Desert, Bermuda Dunes, Tecate. 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 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-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. 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: 10 km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA.

Bermuda Dunes CA El Centro Indio Mexicali Mexico Ocotillo Wells Palm Desert Tecate United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0693359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0675011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SE 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	2017-01-04 06:48:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-04 07:00:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	146	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	96	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1989	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	35	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	ci37780256	Id of event.
Event Code	37780256	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37780256,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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