Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Bombay Beach in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Bombay Beach in CA on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 19:31:31 / August 10, 2020 @ 7:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:31:31 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.6811676 West, latitude 33.2796669 North, depth = 5.07 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39339199. Id of event: ci39339199. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.07 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Progreso, Bermuda Dunes, Mexicali. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6811676° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2796669° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-10 19:31:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-10 19:33:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	151	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08483	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	74	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	ci39339199	Id of event.
Event Code	39339199	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39339199,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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