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Minor earthquake: M3.55 quake has struck near Imperial in CA

Posted by admin on April 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.8274994S, -115.5973358WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Imperial in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37335119. Unique identifier: ci37335119. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.08 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5973358 West, latitude 32.8274994 North, depth = 14.08 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/16 / 2016-04-21 18:14:22 / April 21, 2016 @ 6:14 pm. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:14:22 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter).

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 26 km (16 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oasis, Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota, Guadalupe Victoria (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SW of Imperial, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5973358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8274994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW of Imperial, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-21 18:14:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-21 18:22:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 reviewed 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 200 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07995 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 86 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 ci37335119 Id of event.
Event Code 37335119 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37335119, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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