Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Westmorland in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Westmorland in CA on Thursday. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:55:13 / 11:55 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci39645888. Event ids that are associated: ci39645888. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5753333 West, latitude 33.0643333 North, depth = 3.2 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.2 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/20 / 2020-10-01 11:55:13 / October 1, 2020 @ 11:55 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mecca, Oasis, Puebla. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two 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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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: 5 km NE of Westmorland, CA.

Brawley CA Calexico El Centro Imperial Mecca Mexicali Mexico Oasis Puebla United States Westmorland

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5753333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0643333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NE of Westmorland, 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 11:55:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-01 12:02:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	123	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	ci39645888	Id of event.
Event Code	39645888	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39645888,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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