Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag strikes near Ocotillo in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ocotillo in CA on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 04:18:48 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.41 km, -115.8213348° West, 32.7508316° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/02/21 / 2021-02-01 04:18:48 / February 1, 2021 @ 4:18 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39537399. Id of event: ci39537399. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.41 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oasis, Lomas de Santa Anita, Tecolots (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km E of Ocotillo, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Brawley CA Calexico El Centro Lomas de Santa Anita Mexicali Mexico Oasis Ocotillo Tecate Tecolots United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.8213348° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7508316° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km E of Ocotillo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-01 04:18:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-01 04:20:57	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	181	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1265	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	ci39537399	Id of event.
Event Code	39537399	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39537399,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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