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Minor earthquake 3.17 mag, 33 km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX


Earthquake location 31.9521675S, -116.2845001WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ensenada in B.C. in MX. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:58:46 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38230200. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38230200. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 20:58:46 / July 25, 2018 @ 8:58 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.81 km (12 miles). Exact location, longitude -116.2845001° West, latitude 31.9521675° North, depth = 19.81 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Delicias, Terrazas del Valle, El Niño. Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ensenada (c. 256 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Terrazas del Valle (c. 20 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Las Delicias (c. 15 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2845001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9521675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-25 20:58:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-25 21:15:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 155 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 ci38230200 Id of event.
Event Code 38230200 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38230200, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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