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Minor earthquake 3.54 mag, 20 km NW of Desert Center, CA


Earthquake location 33.862999S, -115.5258331WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Desert Center in CA on Sunday. The 3.54-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:53:21 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.63 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -115.5258331° West, latitude 33.862999° North, depth = 0.63 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/24 / 2024-11-10 21:53:21 / November 10, 2024 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci40791447. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40791447, us7000nr2b.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rancho Mirage, Calipatria, Palm Desert (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from La Quinta (c. 37 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rancho Mirage (c. 17 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km NW of Desert Center, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5258331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.862999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NW of Desert Center, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-10 21:53:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-10 21:59:08 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 4.073 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 193 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1816 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 30 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 ci40791447 Id of event.
Event Code 40791447 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40791447,us7000nr2b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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