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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Niland in CA

Posted by admin on October 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.1838333S, -115.5698333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Niland in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.26 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37515167. Unique identifier: ci37515167. The temblor was reported at 10:26:25 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.5698333° West, latitude 33.1838333° North, depth = 4.26 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/16 / 2016-10-31 17:26:25 / October 31, 2016 @ 5:26 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puebla, Progreso, Mecca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 8 km SW of Niland, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5698333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1838333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SW of Niland, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-31 17:26:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-31 17:37:11 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 127 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03894 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 ci37515167 Id of event.
Event Code 37515167 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37515167, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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