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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 1 km SSE of Brawley, California


Earthquake location 32.9685S, -115.5235WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Brawley in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 20:42:45 / July 24, 2015 @ 8:42 pm. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:42:45 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.288 km, -115.5235° West, 32.9685° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37212959. Unique identifier: ci37212959. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.288 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oasis, Hermosillo, Delta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SSE of Brawley, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5235° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.288 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Brawley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 20:42:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 20:47:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 128 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 ci37212959 Id of event.
Event Code 37212959 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37212959, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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