Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Ocotillo Wells in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ocotillo Wells in CA on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -116.0256653 West, latitude 33.0164986 North, depth = 8.53 km. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:44:43 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.53 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 00:44:43 / May 11, 2020 @ 12:44 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38488706. Id of event: ci38488706.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lomas de Santa Anita, Ramona, La Quinta. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA.

CA Calexico Coachella El Centro La Quinta Lomas de Santa Anita Mexicali Mexico Ocotillo Wells Ramona Tecate United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0256653° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0164986° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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	2020-05-11 00:44:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-11 00:50:43	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	2.2	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	135	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	0.1378	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	ci38488706	Id of event.
Event Code	38488706	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38488706,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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