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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Brawley in CA

Posted by admin on December 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9735S, -115.5443333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Brawley in CA on Saturday. Global time and date of event 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 22:52:04 / December 31, 2016 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:52:04 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.46 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: ci37775392. Event ids that are associated: ci37775392. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5443333 West, latitude 32.9735 North, depth = 5.46 km.

Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Delta, Oasis, Tecolots (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WSW of Brawley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5443333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW of Brawley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-31 22:52:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-31 22:56:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 ci37775392 Id of event.
Event Code 37775392 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37775392, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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