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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Brawley in California

Posted by admin on May 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9295S, -115.5463WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Brawley in California. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5463 West, latitude 32.9295 North, depth = 9 km. Unique identifier: ew1716047540. Ids that are associated to the event: ew1716047540. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:52:14 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 15:52:14 / May 18, 2024 @ 3:52 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Río Colorado, Yuma, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 5 km SSW of Brawley, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSW of Brawley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-18 15:52:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-18 15:52:20 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 246 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ew The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ew1716047540 Id of event.
Event Code 1716047540 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1716047540, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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