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Minor earthquake 3.01 mag, 4 km ENE of Westmorland, CA


Earthquake location 33.0485001S, -115.5845032WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Westmorland in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/20 / 2020-09-30 23:15:24 / September 30, 2020 @ 11:15 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -115.5845032 West, latitude 33.0485001 North, depth = 6.85 km. Id of earthquake: ci39640680. Event ids that are associated: ci39640680. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.85 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:15:24 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecolots, Mecca, Oasis (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 4 km ENE of Westmorland, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5845032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.0485001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ENE 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 2020-09-30 23:15:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-30 23:17:34 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 139 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 ci39640680 Id of event.
Event Code 39640680 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39640680, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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