Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Borrego Springs in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Borrego Springs in CA on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 10.16 km, -116.2649994° West, 33.3051682° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.16 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: ci40904647. Event ids that are associated: ci40904647. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 10:05:06 / March 20, 2025 @ 10:05 am. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:05:06 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eucalyptus Hills, Escondido, Lakeside. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA.

Borrego Springs CA Cathedral City Escondido Eucalyptus Hills Indio Lakeside Palm Desert Palm Springs United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.09 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.2649994° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.3051682° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-20 10:05:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 10:07:14	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	147	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	112	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06818	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	16	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	ci40904647	Id of event.
Event Code	40904647	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40904647,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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