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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Westmorland in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Westmorland in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39644616. Unique identifier: ci39644616. Exact location of earthquake, -115.5931702° West, 33.0631676° North, depth 10.12 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:57:58 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.12 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 01/10/20 / 2020-10-01 06:57:58 / October 1, 2020 @ 6:57 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puebla (c. 8 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tecolots, Mecca, Oasis. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NE of Westmorland, CA.

Brawley CA Calexico El Centro Imperial Mecca Mexicali Mexico Oasis Puebla Tecolots United States Westmorland

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5931702° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0631676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NE of Westmorland, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-01 06:57:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-01 07:01:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	189	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	86	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 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	ci39644616	Id of event.
Event Code	39644616	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39644616,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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