Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Brawley in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Brawley in California. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.64 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 03:27:57 / September 16, 2015 @ 3:27 am. The temblor was reported at 20:27:57 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.5449982 West, latitude 32.9333344 North, depth = 7.64 km. Id of earthquake: ci37243311. Event ids that are associated: ci37243311.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oasis, Hermosillo, Delta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 5 km SSW of Brawley, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5449982° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9333344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSW of Brawley, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-16 03:27:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-16 03:30:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	162	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03441	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	ci37243311	Id of event.
Event Code	37243311	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37243311,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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