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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Ojinaga in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.9883S, -104.7171WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ojinaga in Mexico on Saturday. Unique identifier: us2000ac2n. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ac2n. The temblor was picked up at 09:45:02 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -104.7171° West, latitude 29.9883° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/17 / 2017-08-26 16:45:02 / August 26, 2017 @ 4:45 pm.

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Manuel Ojinaga (c. 22 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ojinaga (c. 22 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manuel Ojinaga, Ojinaga.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km NNW of Ojinaga, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.7171° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.9883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km NNW of Ojinaga, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-26 16:45:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-26 17:05:04 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 4.14 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 234 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 0.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ac2n Id of event.
Event Code 2000ac2n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ac2n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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