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Minor earthquake 3.09 mag, 37 km ENE of Maneadero, Mexico


Earthquake location 31.8553333S, -116.2064972WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Maneadero in Mexico. Exact location of event, longitude -116.2064972 West, latitude 31.8553333 North, depth = 20.31 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.31 km (13 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37762823. Unique identifier: ci37762823. The temblor was picked up at 00:38:02 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 08:38:02 / September 14, 2017 @ 8:38 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Primo Tapia, El Sauzal, Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ensenada (c. 256 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from El Sauzal (c. 9 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Primo Tapia (c. 5 000 pop).

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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 37 km ENE of Maneadero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2064972° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.8553333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km ENE of Maneadero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-14 08:38:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-14 08:40:15 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 147 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 ci37762823 Id of event.
Event Code 37762823 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37762823, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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