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Minor earthquake 3.61 mag, 23 km S of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX


Earthquake location 32.0229988S, -115.2116699WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 08:27:33 / May 29, 2016 @ 8:27 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.42 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -115.2116699 West, latitude 32.0229988 North, depth = 1.42 km. Id of earthquake: ci37577944. Event ids that are associated: ci37577944. The temblor was reported at 01:27:33 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Somerton, Calexico, Progreso (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 18 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Somerton (c. 14 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km S of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2116699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0229988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km S 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 2016-05-29 08:27:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-29 08:30:05 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 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 200 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37577944 Id of event.
Event Code 37577944 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37577944, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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