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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near San Felipe in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.543S, -114.4597WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.73 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -114.4597° West, 31.543° North, depth 13.73 km. The temblor was detected at 06:58:50 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 13:58:50 / October 16, 2016 @ 1:58 pm. Event id: us20007el6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007el6.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe. Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 71 km NNE of San Felipe, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.4597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNE of San Felipe, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-16 13:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-31 20:23:43 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 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 148 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 ,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 0.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us20007el6 Id of event.
Event Code 20007el6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007el6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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