Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Delta in B.C. in MX

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 06:02:56 / January 6, 2016 @ 6:02 am. Id of earthquake: ci37510536. Event ids that are associated: ci37510536. The temblor was picked up at 22:02:56 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.4108333 West, latitude 32.3231667 North, depth = 4.9 km.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brawley, Somerton, San Luis Río Colorado (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 21 km W of Delta, B.C., MX.

B.C.Brawley Calexico Delta El Centro Mexicali Mexico MX San Luis San Luis Río Colorado Somerton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.4108333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.3231667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km W of Delta, B.C., MX	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-06 06:02:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-06 06:07:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	124	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1313	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	ci37510536	Id of event.
Event Code	37510536	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37510536,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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