Minor earthquake: M3.07 quake has struck near Calipatria in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Calipatria in CA on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38134895. Id of event: ci38134895. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:38:49 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.6333313 West, latitude 33.1593323 North, depth = 3.04 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 05:38:49 / November 16, 2018 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.04 km (2 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso. Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 12 km WNW of Calipatria, CA.

Brawley CA Calexico Calipatria Coachella El Centro Mexicali Mexico Progreso Puebla United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6333313° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.1593323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WNW of Calipatria, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-16 05:38:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-16 05:49:50	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	145	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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0234	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	40	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	ci38134895	Id of event.
Event Code	38134895	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38134895,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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