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Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag strikes near Borrego Springs in CA


Earthquake location 33.3126678S, -116.2549973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Borrego Springs in CA. Exact location, longitude -116.2549973° West, latitude 33.3126678° North, depth = 10.41 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 00:57:28 / July 19, 2019 @ 12:57 am. Event id: ci38600223. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38600223. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.41 km (6 miles). The 3.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:57:28 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hemet, Eucalyptus Hills, Escondido. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2549973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.3126678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE 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 2019-07-19 00:57:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-19 00:59:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 169 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 105 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 ci38600223 Id of event.
Event Code 38600223 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38600223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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