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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag was detected near El Centro in CA


Earthquake location 32.7813339S, -115.5473328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from El Centro in CA. Id of earthquake: ci38239746. Event ids that are associated: ci38239746. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 09:59:48 / November 12, 2019 @ 9:59 am. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:59:48 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.79 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5473328 West, latitude 32.7813339 North, depth = 12.79 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis Río Colorado, Somerton, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km SE of El Centro, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5473328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.7813339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SE of El Centro, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-12 09:59:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-12 10:01:57 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 171 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 ci38239746 Id of event.
Event Code 38239746 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38239746, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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