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Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Holtville in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Holtville in CA. Unique identifier: ci39800544. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39800544. Global time and date of event 24/02/21 / 2021-02-24 16:55:36 / February 24, 2021 @ 4:55 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -115.4609985 West, latitude 32.8139992 North, depth = 12.61 km. The temblor was detected at 16:55:36 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.61 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Río Colorado, Somerton, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop).

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

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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 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: 8 km W of Holtville, CA.

CA Calexico El Centro Holtville Mexicali Mexico San Luis San Luis Río Colorado Somerton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.4609985° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8139992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km W of Holtville, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-24 16:55:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-24 16:57:53	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	142	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01477	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	59	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	ci39800544	Id of event.
Event Code	39800544	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39800544,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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