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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Calipatria in CA


Earthquake location 33.161499S, -115.6409988WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Calipatria in CA. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:11:30 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 14:11:30 / October 5, 2016 @ 2:11 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.42 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -115.6409988° West, 33.161499° North, depth 7.42 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37710608. Id of event: ci37710608.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso. Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 12 km WNW of Calipatria, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6409988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.161499° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WNW of Calipatria, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-05 14:11:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-05 14:22:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02654 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 ci37710608 Id of event.
Event Code 37710608 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37710608, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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