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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 5 km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX


Earthquake location 32.3463326S, -115.2415009WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX. Event id: ci37781184. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37781184. Exact location of earthquake, -115.2415009° West, 32.3463326° North, depth 22.2 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.2 km (14 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 06:55:08 / January 6, 2017 @ 6:55 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:55:08 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brawley, Yuma, Imperial. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2415009° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3463326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2017-01-06 06:55:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 06:57:26 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 178 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 ci37781184 Id of event.
Event Code 37781184 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37781184, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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