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Minor earthquake 3.58 mag, 6 km SSW of Brawley, CA


Earthquake location 32.9283333S, -115.546669WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Brawley in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 22:58:19 / May 18, 2024 @ 10:58 pm. Id of earthquake: ci40591047. Event ids that are associated: ci40591047. Exact location of earthquake, -115.546669° West, 32.9283333° North, depth 14.62 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:58:19 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.62 km (9 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guadalupe Victoria, Oasis, Hermosillo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop).

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 in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 6 km SSW of Brawley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.546669° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9283333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 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 22:58:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-18 23:00:28 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 197 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02928 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci40591047 Id of event.
Event Code 40591047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40591047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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