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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag has occurred near Bombay Beach in CA


Earthquake location 33.2304993S, -115.6926651WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Bombay Beach in CA on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.66 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci39338487. Unique identifier: ci39338487. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 16:13:56 / August 10, 2020 @ 4:13 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:13:56 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7.66 km, -115.6926651° West, 33.2304993° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palm Desert, Puebla, Bermuda Dunes. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Palm Desert (c. 48 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-nine 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. 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: 14 km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6926651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2304993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSE of Bombay Beach, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-10 16:13:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-10 16:16:32 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 182 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 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 ci39338487 Id of event.
Event Code 39338487 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39338487, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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