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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX on Friday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:55:19 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 10:55:19 / April 29, 2016 @ 10:55 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.01 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -115.2356667° West, latitude 32.3408333° North, depth = 10.01 km. Event id: ci37337495. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37337495.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brawley, Yuma, Imperial (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 4 km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.2356667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.3408333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WSW 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	2016-04-29 10:55:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-29 11:01:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	138	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09795	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	188	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	ci37337495	Id of event.
Event Code	37337495	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37337495,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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