Minor earthquake, 3.37 mag strikes near Ocotillo in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ocotillo in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 02:40:47 / March 16, 2020 @ 2:40 am. Exact location of event, longitude -115.9878311 West, latitude 32.8644981 North, depth = 10.92 km. The temblor was detected at 18:40:47 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38395042. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38395042. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.92 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa del Campo, Mecca, San Diego Country Estates. Close 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km N of Ocotillo, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Brawley CA Calexico El Centro Mecca Mexicali Mexico Ocotillo San Diego Country Estates Tecate United States Villa del Campo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.37 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.9878311° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8644981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km N of Ocotillo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-16 02:40:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-16 02:42:55	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	175	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	99	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02724	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	43	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	ci38395042	Id of event.
Event Code	38395042	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38395042,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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