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Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Progreso in B.C. in MX

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Progreso in B.C. in MX. Unique identifier: ci37322735. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37322735. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.56 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:47:38 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.6849976° West, latitude 32.5623322° North, depth = 5.56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 17:47:38 / March 25, 2016 @ 5:47 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Estación Coahuila, Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete), Hermosillo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 10 km WSW of Progreso, B.C., MX.

B.C.Brawley Calexico Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete)El Centro Estacion Coahuila Guadalupe Victoria Hermosillo Mexicali Mexico MX Progreso United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6849976° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.5623322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km WSW of Progreso, 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	2016-03-25 17:47:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-25 17:51:22	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	174	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09352	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	ci37322735	Id of event.
Event Code	37322735	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37322735,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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