Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag has occurred near Salton City in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Salton City in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.043663 West, latitude 33.2260017 North, depth = 2.84 km. The temblor was reported at 18:39:58 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.84 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 18:39:58 / August 2, 2024 @ 6:39 pm. Event id: ci40859584. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40859584.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palm Springs, Alpine, Ramona (min 5000 pop). 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 12 km SW of Salton City, CA.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.043663° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2260017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SW 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	2024-08-02 18:39:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-02 18:45:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	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	163	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	119	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1256	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	ci40859584	Id of event.
Event Code	40859584	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40859584,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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