Minor earthquake: M3.05 quake has struck near Alberto Oviedo Mota in Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in Mexico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/17 / 2017-07-04 03:21:47 / July 4, 2017 @ 3:21 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.58 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ci37924848. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37924848. Exact location of event, longitude -115.1750031 West, latitude 32.2493324 North, depth = 15.58 km. The temblor was reported at 19:21:47 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Imperial, Yuma, El Centro. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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 sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.1750031° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.2493324° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-04 03:21:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-04 03:24:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	143	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2022	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	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	ci37924848	Id of event.
Event Code	37924848	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37924848,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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