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Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 100 km SSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX


Earthquake location 31.3523333S, -115.398WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 17:05:10 / July 3, 2015 @ 5:05 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:05:10 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.398 West, latitude 31.3523333 North, depth = 2.227 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37197351. Id of event: ci37197351. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.227 km (1 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 100 km SSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.398° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3523333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.227 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km SSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-03 17:05:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 17:42:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 reviewed 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 133 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 ci37197351 Id of event.
Event Code 37197351 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37197351, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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