Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Calipatria in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Calipatria in CA on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 13:09:17 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37667584. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37667584. Exact location of event, depth 7.1 km, -115.635498° West, 33.159832° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.1 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 20:09:17 / August 21, 2016 @ 8:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso.

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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 12 km WNW of Calipatria, CA.

Brawley CA Calexico Calipatria Coachella El Centro Mexicali Mexico Progreso Puebla United States

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.635498° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.159832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WNW of Calipatria, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-21 20:09:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-21 20:11:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	142	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02422	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	ci37667584	Id of event.
Event Code	37667584	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37667584,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Calipatria in CA

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information