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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Camalu in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.159S, -115.996WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Camalu in Mexico on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 08:17:04 / September 20, 2015 @ 8:17 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21 km (13 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:17:04 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -115.996 West, latitude 31.159 North, depth = 21 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37245743, us20003m54. Id of event: us20003m54.

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 12 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 5 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Quintín (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Benito García (El Zorrillo), San Quintín, Vicente Guerrero (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 34 km N of Camalu, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km N of Camalu, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-20 08:17:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 09:57:42 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20003m54 Id of event.
Event Code 20003m54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37245743,us20003m54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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