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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 6 km NW of North Shore, CA


Earthquake location 33.5695S, -115.9786667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from North Shore in CA on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38162264. Unique identifier: ci38162264. The epicenter was at a depth of 28.11 km (17 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 11:10:46 / May 2, 2018 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:10:46 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.9786667° West, latitude 33.5695° North, depth = 28.11 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Calipatria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (17 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Cathedral City (c. 51 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Palm Springs (c. 44 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 6 km NW of North Shore, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.9786667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.5695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of North Shore, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-02 11:10:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 11:14:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 128 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 290 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 ci38162264 Id of event.
Event Code 38162264 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38162264, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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