Minor earthquake, 3.41 mag has occurred near Salton City in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Salton City in CA on Sunday. The 3.41-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:17:01 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.24 km, -116.0853348° West, 33.2555008° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.24 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40808000. Id of event: ci40808000. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/24 / 2024-06-23 19:17:01 / June 23, 2024 @ 7:17 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Garnet, Holtville, Alpine. Close country/countries, 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 13 km WSW of Salton City, CA.

Alpine CA Cathedral City El Centro Garnet Holtville Indio Palm Desert Palm Springs Salton City United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0853348° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2555008° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km WSW of Salton City, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-23 19:17:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-23 19:25:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	reviewed	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	182	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	112	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1212	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	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	ci40808000	Id of event.
Event Code	40808000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40808000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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