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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 26 km NNE of Socorro, New Mexico

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Earthquake location 34.2864S, -106.8118WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Socorro in New Mexico. Unique identifier: us1000bjyq. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjyq. Global time and date of event 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 17:12:01 / December 1, 2017 @ 5:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -106.8118 West, latitude 34.2864 North, depth = 4.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.58 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:12:01 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from South Valley (c. 41 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Los Lunas (c. 14 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Belen (c. 7 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Los Chavez (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Valley, Los Lunas, Los Chavez (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km NNE of Socorro, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.8118° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNE of Socorro, 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 2017-12-01 17:12:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-01 17:33:33 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 222 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 0.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us1000bjyq Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjyq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjyq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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