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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Brawley in CA


Earthquake location 32.9536667S, -115.5228348WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Brawley in CA on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38199831. Unique identifier: ci38199831. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.97 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 08:24:44 / January 22, 2019 @ 8:24 am. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:24:44 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.5228348 West, latitude 32.9536667 North, depth = 10.97 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guadalupe Victoria, Oasis, Hermosillo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km SSE of Brawley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5228348° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9536667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE 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 2019-01-22 08:24:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-22 08:29:26 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 6.11 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 reviewed 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 188 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 ci38199831 Id of event.
Event Code 38199831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38199831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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