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Minor earthquake, 3.73 mag was detected near El Centro in CA


Earthquake location 32.7615013S, -115.5633316WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.73 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from El Centro in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.33 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38238754. Id of event: ci38238754. The 3.73-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:14:17 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -115.5633316 West, latitude 32.7615013 North, depth = 18.33 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 02:14:17 / November 12, 2019 @ 2:14 am.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Estación Coahuila, Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete), Somerton (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 3 km S of El Centro, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.73 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5633316° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.7615013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of El Centro, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-12 02:14:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-12 02:17:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 216 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02854 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 104 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38238754 Id of event.
Event Code 38238754 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38238754, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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