Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Puebla in B.C. in MX

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Puebla in B.C. in MX on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.44 km (13 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:10:14 / 12:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39120399. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39120399. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 20:10:14 / March 29, 2020 @ 8:10 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -115.454834 West, latitude 32.5060005 North, depth = 20.44 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Somerton, Calipatria, San Luis Río Colorado. Epicenter of the event was 14 km (8 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SW of Puebla, B.C., MX. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

B.C.Calexico Calipatria El Centro Mexicali Mexico MX Puebla San Luis San Luis Río Colorado Somerton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.454834° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.5060005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SW of Puebla, B.C., MX	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-29 20:10:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-29 20:12:24	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1255	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	ci39120399	Id of event.
Event Code	39120399	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39120399,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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