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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Calipatria in CA

Posted by admin on January 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.179S, -115.6058333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Calipatria in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38194983. Event ids that are associated: ci38194983. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 02:53:47 / January 17, 2019 @ 2:53 am. Exact location of event, depth 2.42 km, -115.6058333° West, 33.179° North. The temblor was detected at 18:53:47 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.42 km (2 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km NW of Calipatria, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6058333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Calipatria, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-17 02:53:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-17 02:57:40 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 128 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38194983 Id of event.
Event Code 38194983 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38194983, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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