Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Coachella in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Coachella in CA on Friday. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:58:38 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -116.0654984 West, latitude 33.7845001 North, depth = 4.84 km. Unique identifier: ci41034888. Ids that are associated to the event: ci41034888. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.84 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 04:58:38 / January 24, 2025 @ 4:58 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Valle Vista, Banning, Yucca Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 15 km NE of Coachella, CA.

Banning CA Cathedral City Coachella Indio Palm Desert Palm Springs United States Valle Vista Yucca Valley

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.0654984° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7845001° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NE of Coachella, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-24 04:58:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-24 05:01:05	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	127	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	107	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1305	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	ci41034888	Id of event.
Event Code	41034888	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41034888,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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