Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX. Exact location of earthquake, -115.1285° West, 32.1071667° North, depth 17.87 km. Event id: ci37757287. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37757287. The temblor was reported at 08:31:40 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 17.87 km (11 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/17 / 2017-09-07 16:31:40 / September 7, 2017 @ 4:31 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calexico, Progreso, Somerton (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SSE of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX.

Alberto Oviedo Mota B.C.Calexico Guadalupe Victoria Mexicali Mexico MX Progreso San Luis San Luis Río Colorado Somerton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.1285° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.1071667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-07 16:31:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-07 16:35:15	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	126	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2002	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241	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	ci37757287	Id of event.
Event Code	37757287	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37757287,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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