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Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Imperial in California


Earthquake location 32.8508339S, -115.626503WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Imperial in California on Sunday. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:20:01 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38025520. Event ids that are associated: ci38025520. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/17 / 2017-10-15 13:20:01 / October 15, 2017 @ 1:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -115.626503° West, 32.8508339° North, depth 15.82 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.82 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guadalupe Victoria, Hermosillo, Delta (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km W of Imperial, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.626503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8508339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km W of Imperial, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-15 13:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-15 13:29:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 166 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07493 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci38025520 Id of event.
Event Code 38025520 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38025520, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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