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Minor earthquake 3.49 mag, 5 km SSW of Brawley, CA

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Earthquake location 32.9313316S, -115.5439987WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Brawley in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 19:46:17 / May 18, 2024 @ 7:46 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.56 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10.56 km, -115.5439987° West, 32.9313316° North. Id of earthquake: ci40590799. Event ids that are associated: ci40590799. The temblor was picked up at 19:46:17 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guadalupe Victoria, Oasis, Hermosillo. Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5439987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9313316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.56 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 19:46:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-18 19:51:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 188 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 ci40590799 Id of event.
Event Code 40590799 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40590799, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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