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Minor earthquake, 3.62 mag was detected near Westmorland in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Westmorland in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/20 / 2020-10-01 14:46:42 / October 1, 2020 @ 2:46 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5821686 West, latitude 33.0673332 North, depth = 9.74 km. The 3.62-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:46:42 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci39646376. Unique identifier: ci39646376. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.74 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecolots, Mecca, Oasis. Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 31 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). 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 sixty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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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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. 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: 5 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	3.62 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5821686° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0673332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km 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 14:46:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-01 14:52:00	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	4.81	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	reviewed	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	202	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	88	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02899	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	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci39646376	Id of event.
Event Code	39646376	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39646376,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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