Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Brawley in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Brawley in CA. The temblor was picked up at 13:49:30 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.36 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 21:49:30 / December 31, 2016 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -115.5435028° West, latitude 32.972332° North, depth = 9.36 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37775048. Unique identifier: ci37775048.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hermosillo, Delta, Oasis. Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 33 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).

Each 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km WSW of Brawley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Brawley CA Calexico Delta El Centro Hermosillo Imperial Mexicali Mexico Oasis United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5435028° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.972332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km WSW of Brawley, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-31 21:49:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-31 21:52:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	137	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07213	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	76	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	ci37775048	Id of event.
Event Code	37775048	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37775048,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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