A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Westmorland in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39657488. Unique identifier: ci39657488. The temblor was picked up at 01:24:19 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/10/20 / 2020-10-09 01:24:19 / October 9, 2020 @ 1:24 am. Exact location, longitude -115.5856705° West, latitude 33.0185013° North, depth = 11.6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.6 km (7 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mecca, Tecolots, Oasis (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 4 km ESE of Westmorland, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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