Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Salton City in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Salton City in CA on Saturday. Unique identifier: ci40860408. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40860408. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.0498352 West, latitude 33.2311668 North, depth = 2.05 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:47:22 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.05 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 05:47:22 / August 3, 2024 @ 5:47 am.

The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Diego Country Estates, Thousand Palms, Cathedral City.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SW of Salton City, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Cathedral City Coachella El Centro Indio Palm Desert Salton City San Diego Country Estates Thousand Palms United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0498352° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2311668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.05 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	2024-08-03 05:47:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-03 05:49:27	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	121	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	113	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0725	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	19	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	ci40860408	Id of event.
Event Code	40860408	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40860408,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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