Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Ensenada in B.C. in MX

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ensenada in B.C. in MX. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/16 / 2016-10-07 16:28:48 / October 7, 2016 @ 4:28 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -116.1953354 West, latitude 31.9134998 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: ci37712312. Event ids that are associated: ci37712312. The temblor was picked up at 09:28:48 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Primo Tapia, El Sauzal, Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ensenada (c. 256 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from El Sauzal (c. 9 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Primo Tapia (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-seven 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km E of Ensenada, B.C., MX.

B.C.Benito García (El Zorrillo)El Sauzal Ensenada Mexico MX Primo Tapia Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.1953354° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.9134998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km E of Ensenada, 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	2016-10-07 16:28:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-07 16:40:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	141	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	ci37712312	Id of event.
Event Code	37712312	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37712312,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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