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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Niland in CA


Earthquake location 33.1933327S, -115.5764999WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Niland in CA on Saturday. Global time and date of event 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 12:05:14 / June 22, 2019 @ 12:05 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.66 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ci38426023. Event ids that are associated: ci38426023. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:05:14 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.66 km, -115.5764999° West, 33.1933327° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coachella, Puebla, Progreso. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Coachella (c. 40 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-two 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: 8 km SW of Niland, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5764999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1933327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SW of Niland, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-22 12:05:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-22 12:07:21 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 ci38426023 Id of event.
Event Code 38426023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38426023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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