Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near Thousand Palms in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Thousand Palms in CA on Monday. Global time and date of event 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 02:43:50 / January 27, 2025 @ 2:43 am UTC/GMT. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:43:50 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.2 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -116.2133331 West, latitude 33.9099998 North, depth = 5.2 km. Id of earthquake: ci40852279. Event ids that are associated: ci40852279.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Big Bear Lake, Hemet, Cherry Valley (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop). 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km ENE of Thousand Palms, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Big Bear Lake CA Cathedral City Cherry Valley Hemet Indio Palm Desert Palm Springs Thousand Palms United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.2133331° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9099998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km ENE of Thousand Palms, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-27 02:43:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 02:45:57	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	130	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	108	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03661	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	33	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	ci40852279	Id of event.
Event Code	40852279	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40852279,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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