Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Brawley in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Brawley in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.5516663 West, latitude 32.9744987 North, depth = 8.67 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.67 km (5 miles). The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:07:41 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37776160. Id of event: ci37776160. Global time and date of event 01/01/17 / 2017-01-01 02:07:41 / January 1, 2017 @ 2:07 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hermosillo, Delta, Oasis (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearby 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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 2 km WSW of Brawley, CA.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5516663° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9744987° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km 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	2017-01-01 02:07:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-01 02:09:54	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	134	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06848	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	ci37776160	Id of event.
Event Code	37776160	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37776160,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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