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Minor earthquake 3.42 mag, 10 km S of Bombay Beach, California


Earthquake location 33.2573318S, -115.7181702WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bombay Beach in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.88 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -115.7181702 West, latitude 33.2573318 North, depth = 2.88 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 00:21:00 / December 18, 2015 @ 12:21 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37285815. Unique identifier: ci37285815. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:21:00 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palm Desert, Progreso, Bermuda Dunes. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 six and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km S of Bombay Beach, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.7181702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2573318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Bombay Beach, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-18 00:21:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-18 00:24:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 180 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09587 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 35 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 ci37285815 Id of event.
Event Code 37285815 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37285815, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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