Minor earthquake: M3.71 quake has struck near Brawley in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Brawley in CA. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:36:37 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -115.5455017° West, 32.9384995° North, depth 14.48 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40589407. Id of event: ci40589407. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 09:36:37 / May 18, 2024 @ 9:36 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.48 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mecca, Guadalupe Victoria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km SSW of Brawley, CA.

Brawley CA Calexico Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota El Centro Guadalupe Victoria Imperial Mecca Mexicali Mexico United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5455017° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9384995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSW of Brawley, CA	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 09:36:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-18 09:42:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.161	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	213	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03908	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	ci40589407	Id of event.
Event Code	40589407	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40589407,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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