Minor earthquake: M3.45 quake has struck near Delta in B.C. in MX

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/24 / 2024-05-12 18:25:54 / May 12, 2024 @ 6:25 pm. Unique identifier: ci37653444. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37653444, us6000my5v. Exact location, longitude -115.2321667° West, latitude 32.4201667° North, depth = 8 km. The 3.45-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:25:54 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calipatria, Fortuna Foothills, Brawley. Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-two, 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. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

B.C.Brawley Calexico Calipatria Delta El Centro Fortuna Foothills Mexicali Mexico MX San Luis Río Colorado United States Yuma

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.45 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.2321667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4201667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-12 18:25:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-13 18:27:55	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	4.261	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	reviewed	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	183	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0616	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	ci37653444	Id of event.
Event Code	37653444	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37653444,us6000my5v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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