A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX. Event id: ci37781184. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37781184. Exact location of earthquake, -115.2415009° West, 32.3463326° North, depth 22.2 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.2 km (14 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 06:55:08 / January 6, 2017 @ 6:55 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:55:08 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brawley, Yuma, Imperial. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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