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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Calipatria in CA


Earthquake location 33.1075S, -115.5955WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Calipatria in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.72 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/20 / 2020-10-01 19:38:53 / October 1, 2020 @ 7:38 pm. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:38:53 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39647256. Id of event: ci39647256. Exact location, longitude -115.5955° West, latitude 33.1075° North, depth = 6.72 km.

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mecca, Puebla, Oasis. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WSW of Calipatria, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW 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 2020-10-01 19:38:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-01 19:42:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 121 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 ci39647256 Id of event.
Event Code 39647256 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39647256, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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