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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Armeria in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2909S, -104.3435WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Armeria in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 04:54:30 / July 30, 2017 @ 4:54 am. The temblor was detected at 21:54:30 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a4v3. Id of event: us2000a4v3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.3435 West, latitude 18.2909 North, depth = 9.6 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Colomo, Tecoman, Manzanillo. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km SSW of Armeria, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of Armeria, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-30 04:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-27 01:54:16 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 211 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 0.938 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us2000a4v3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a4v3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a4v3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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