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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Borrego Springs in CA


Earthquake location 33.2468333S, -116.3273333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Borrego Springs in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.3273333 West, latitude 33.2468333 North, depth = 14.15 km. Unique identifier: ci38271551. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38271551. The temblor was detected at 08:06:56 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 16:06:56 / March 16, 2019 @ 4:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santee (c. 53 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calipatria, Valle Vista, Garnet.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.3273333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2468333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-16 16:06:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-16 16:19:48 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 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 126 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 85 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 ci38271551 Id of event.
Event Code 38271551 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38271551, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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