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Minor earthquake 3.32 mag, 2 km SW of Brawley, CA

Posted by admin on December 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9690018S, -115.5426636WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Brawley in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 23:25:27 / December 31, 2016 @ 11:25 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:25:27 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.08 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10.08 km, -115.5426636° West, 32.9690018° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37775608. Unique identifier: ci37775608.

Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Close 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 Hermosillo, Delta, Oasis.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SW of Brawley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5426636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9690018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW 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 23:25:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-31 23:27:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 170 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 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 ci37775608 Id of event.
Event Code 37775608 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37775608, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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