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Minor earthquake, 3.0561981081595 mag has occurred near Borrego Springs in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.0561981081595 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Borrego Springs in CA. Exact location, longitude -116.40716552734° West, latitude 33.23450088501° North, depth = 1.2799999713898 km. The 3.0561981081595-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:01:17 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci41135767. Unique identifier: ci41135767. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/25 / 2025-12-09 08:01:17 / December 9, 2025 @ 8:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.2799999713898 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vista, Spring Valley, La Mesa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Escondido (c. 143 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Temecula (c. 100 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vista (c. 93 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Marcos (c. 83 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 4 km SW of Borrego Springs, CA.

Borrego Springs CA El Cajon Escondido La Mesa San Marcos Spring Valley Temecula United States Vista

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.0561981081595 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.40716552734° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.23450088501° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.2799999713898 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SW 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	2025-12-09 08:01:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-09 08:03:28	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	144	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	115	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.189999998 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	14	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	ci41135767	Id of event.
Event Code	41135767	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41135767,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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