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Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Seeley in California


Earthquake location 32.6800003S, -115.8146667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Seeley in California. The temblor was detected at 15:00:34 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.08 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10.08 km, -115.8146667° West, 32.6800003° North. Global time and date of event 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 23:00:34 / January 4, 2018 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37846951. Id of event: ci37846951.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tecate, Delta, Calipatria. Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 17 km SW of Seeley, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.8146667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.6800003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SW of Seeley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-04 23:00:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-04 23:02:48 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 142 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09637 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 138 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 ci37846951 Id of event.
Event Code 37846951 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37846951, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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