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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Brawley in California


Earthquake location 32.9728317S, -115.5690002WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Brawley in California on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: ci37387567. Event ids that are associated: ci37387567. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 07:41:03 / June 15, 2016 @ 7:41 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.44 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:41:03 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.5690002 West, latitude 32.9728317 North, depth = 13.44 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Delta, Oasis, Tecolots. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km W of Brawley, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5690002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9728317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km W 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 2016-06-15 07:41:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 07:51:37 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 134 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 0.06614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 ci37387567 Id of event.
Event Code 37387567 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37387567, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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