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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Socorro in New Mexico

Posted by admin on February 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.1459S, -106.8945WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Socorro in New Mexico on Thursday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:14:04 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -106.8945 West, latitude 34.1459 North, depth = 10.28 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.28 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/17 / 2017-02-02 16:14:04 / February 2, 2017 @ 4:14 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008fx1. Unique identifier: us20008fx1.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Los Lunas (c. 14 800 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Belen (c. 7 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Los Chavez (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Lunas, Los Chavez, Belen. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km N of Socorro, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.8945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Socorro, New Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-02 16:14:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-02 23:31:48 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 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 ,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 0.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20008fx1 Id of event.
Event Code 20008fx1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008fx1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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