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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Delta in B.C. in MX


Earthquake location 32.388S, -115.2485WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Delta in B.C. in MX. The temblor was reported at 22:53:45 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 06:53:45 / January 6, 2017 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37781176. Unique identifier: ci37781176. Exact location, longitude -115.2485° West, latitude 32.388° North, depth = 3.23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.23 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brawley, Yuma, Imperial.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 6 km NW of Delta, B.C., MX.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW 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 06:53:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 06:57:24 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 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 ci37781176 Id of event.
Event Code 37781176 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37781176, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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