Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Alberto Oviedo Mota in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 10, 2018 0 Comments

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in Mexico on Saturday. Id of earthquake: ci37891767. Event ids that are associated: ci37891767. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.87 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 22:20:39 / March 10, 2018 @ 10:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:20:39 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.3273315 West, latitude 32.2111664 North, depth = 10.87 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Luis (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Imperial, Somerton, El Centro (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel the quake?

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. 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: 14 km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.3273315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.2111664° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-10 22:20:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-10 22:22:53	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	162	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	258	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	ci37891767	Id of event.
Event Code	37891767	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37891767,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Alberto Oviedo Mota in Mexico

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information