Minor earthquake: M3.61 quake has struck near Thermal in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Thermal in CA. Exact location, longitude -115.9203339° West, latitude 33.7459984° North, depth = 4.86 km. Event id: ci39504023. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39504023. The temblor was picked up at 20:25:59 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 20:25:59 / December 25, 2020 @ 8:25 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.86 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calipatria, Yucca Valley, Garnet (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from La Quinta (c. 37 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 23 km ENE of Thermal, CA.

CA Calipatria Cathedral City Coachella Garnet Indio La Quinta Palm Desert Palm Springs Thermal United States Yucca Valley

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.61 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.9203339° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7459984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km ENE of Thermal, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-25 20:25:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-25 20:28:14	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	200	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	122	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07945	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 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	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci39504023	Id of event.
Event Code	39504023	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39504023,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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