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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Imperial in CA

Posted by admin on May 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9054985S, -115.5343323WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Imperial in CA. Exact location, longitude -115.5343323° West, latitude 32.9054985° North, depth = 8.31 km. Id of earthquake: ci40590943. Event ids that are associated: ci40590943. The temblor was detected at 21:23:17 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 21:23:17 / May 18, 2024 @ 9:23 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.31 km (5 miles).

The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hermosillo, Delta, Tecolots. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km NNE of Imperial, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5343323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9054985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NNE of Imperial, 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 21:23:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-18 21:25:48 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 135 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci40590943 Id of event.
Event Code 40590943 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40590943, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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