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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Cimarron in New Mexico

Posted by admin on January 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7924S, -104.9236WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Cimarron in New Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/18 / 2018-01-28 21:23:17 / January 28, 2018 @ 9:23 pm. Unique identifier: us2000cqqu. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cqqu. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:23:17 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -104.9236° West, latitude 36.7924° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Taos (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taos, Trinidad, Raton (min 5000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 31 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.9236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km N of Cimarron, 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 2018-01-28 21:23:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-28 23:15:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 168 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 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us2000cqqu Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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