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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Brawley in CA


Earthquake location 32.9423332S, -115.543335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Brawley in CA on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.35 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -115.543335° West, 32.9423332° North, depth 11.35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/17 / 2017-03-28 11:03:27 / March 28, 2017 @ 11:03 am UTC/GMT. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:03:27 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci37613935. Event ids that are associated: ci37613935.

The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oasis, Hermosillo, Delta. 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SSW of Brawley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.543335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9423332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW 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 2017-03-28 11:03:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-28 11:09:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 147 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04329 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 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 ci37613935 Id of event.
Event Code 37613935 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37613935, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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