A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Niland in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 19:41:01 / January 11, 2018 @ 7:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37850695. Unique identifier: ci37850695. The temblor was picked up at 11:41:01 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.6058333° West, latitude 33.1881667° North, depth = 2.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.31 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 10 km SW of Niland, CA.
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