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Minor earthquake 3.59 mag, 10 km E of Desert Hot Springs, CA


Earthquake location 33.9473343S, -116.3935013WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Desert Hot Springs in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/20 / 2020-09-25 17:10:11 / September 25, 2020 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci38703802. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38703802. The temblor was detected at 17:10:11 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 2.78 km, -116.3935013° West, 33.9473343° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.78 km (2 miles).

The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Bernardino (c. 209 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moreno Valley (c. 193 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hemet (c. 78 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Menifee (c. 77 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Indio (c. 76 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Redlands (c. 68 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Bernardino, Mead Valley, Good Hope (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km E of Desert Hot Springs, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.3935013° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9473343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Desert Hot 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 2020-09-25 17:10:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-25 17:13:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 201 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 121 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38703802 Id of event.
Event Code 38703802 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38703802, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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