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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag was detected near Imperial in CA


Earthquake location 32.8991667S, -115.5208333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Imperial in CA on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/20 / 2020-10-01 01:44:21 / October 1, 2020 @ 1:44 am. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:44:21 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci39642272. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39642272. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -115.5208333° West, latitude 32.8991667° North, depth = 11.9 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota, Guadalupe Victoria, Hermosillo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km NE of Imperial, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.5208333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8991667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NE of Imperial, 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 01:44:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-01 01:48:10 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 171 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 283 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 ci39642272 Id of event.
Event Code 39642272 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39642272, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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