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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 14 km WNW of Calipatria, CA


Earthquake location 33.1568336S, -115.6553345WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Calipatria in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/20 / 2020-06-02 05:39:31 / June 2, 2020 @ 5:39 am. Unique identifier: ci39226575. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39226575. Exact location of event, depth 7.34 km, -115.6553345° West, 33.1568336° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.34 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:39:31 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 14 km WNW of Calipatria, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6553345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1568336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW 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 2020-06-02 05:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-02 05:41:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 ci39226575 Id of event.
Event Code 39226575 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39226575, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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