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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Santa Rosa in New Mexico

Posted by admin on August 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.9921S, -104.3461WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Santa Rosa in New Mexico on Friday. Global time and date of event 18/08/17 / 2017-08-18 15:30:03 / August 18, 2017 @ 3:30 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:30:03 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000a9ep. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a9ep. Exact location of earthquake, -104.3461° West, 34.9921° North, depth 5 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tucumcari. Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Tucumcari (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 31 km E of Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.9921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km E of Santa Rosa, 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 2017-08-18 15:30:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-18 16:05:20 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 1.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000a9ep Id of event.
Event Code 2000a9ep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a9ep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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